Herbert Marcuse Quotes
Top 40 wise famous quotes and sayings by Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left.
Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the world.
The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression.
[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order.
The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral.
The present stage redefines the possibilities of man and nature in accordance with the new means available for their realization.
Glorification of the 'natural' is part of the ideology which protects an unnatural society in its struggle against liberation.
If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and ethics is epistemology.
The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.
The functional language is a radically anti-historical language: operational rationality has little room and little use for historical reason.
There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.
The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control.
The liberating force of technology the instrumentalization of things turns into ... the instrumentalization of man.
Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity.
The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization
The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.
Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production.
Society ... can afford to grant more than before because its interests have become the innermost drives of its citizens.
Entertainment and learning are not opposites; entertainment may be the most effective mode of learning.
The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.
Non-operational ideas are non-behavioral and subversive. The movement of thought is stopped at barriers which appear as the limits of Reason itself.
The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will.