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The happy consciousness is shaky enough a thin surface over fear, frustration, and disgust.
— Herbert Marcuse
Thought that accepts reality as given is no thought at all.
— Herbert Marcuse
Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left.
— Herbert Marcuse
This is the pure form of servitude: to exist as an instrument.
— Herbert Marcuse
That which is cannot be true.
— Herbert Marcuse
Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence.
— Herbert Marcuse
The revolution is for the sake of life, not death.
— Herbert Marcuse
Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.
— Herbert Marcuse
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.
— Herbert Marcuse
Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.
— Herbert Marcuse
At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one.
— Herbert Marcuse
The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression.
— Herbert Marcuse
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[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order.
— Herbert Marcuse
The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative.
— Herbert Marcuse
The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral.
— Herbert Marcuse
The functional language is a radically anti-historical language: operational rationality has little room and little use for historical reason.
— Herbert Marcuse
Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity.
— Herbert Marcuse
The present stage redefines the possibilities of man and nature in accordance with the new means available for their realization.
— Herbert Marcuse
Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.
— Herbert Marcuse
The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.
— Herbert Marcuse
Glorification of the 'natural' is part of the ideology which protects an unnatural society in its struggle against liberation.
— Herbert Marcuse
There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.
— Herbert Marcuse
The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control.
— Herbert Marcuse
The Superego, in censoring the unconscious and in implanting conscience, also censors the censor.
— Herbert Marcuse
The liberating force of technology the instrumentalization of things turns into ... the instrumentalization of man.
— Herbert Marcuse
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.
— Herbert Marcuse
The slaves of developed industrial civilization are sublimated slaves.
— Herbert Marcuse
The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization
— Herbert Marcuse
The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.
— Herbert Marcuse
Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production.
— Herbert Marcuse
Society ... can afford to grant more than before because its interests have become the innermost drives of its citizens.
— Herbert Marcuse
Entertainment and learning are not opposites; entertainment may be the most effective mode of learning.
— Herbert Marcuse
Marcuse also believed that sexuality was a political., an ideological, category, not found but made.
— Richard A. Posner
Domination has its own aesthetics, and democratic domination has its democratic aesthetics.
— Herbert Marcuse
The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.
— Herbert Marcuse
Non-operational ideas are non-behavioral and subversive. The movement of thought is stopped at barriers which appear as the limits of Reason itself.
— Herbert Marcuse
