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Herbert Marcuse Quote: “Every sound reason is on the side of law and order in their insistence that the eternity of joy be reserved for the hereafter, and in their endeavor to subordinate the struggle against death and disease to the never-ceasing requirements of national and international security.”

51. “Every sound reason is on the side of law and order in their insistence that the eternity of joy be reserved for the hereafter, and in their endeavor to subordinate the struggle against death and disease to the never-ceasing requirements of national and international security.”

— Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse Quote: “Ideas, aspirations, and objectives that, by their content, transcend the established universe of discourse and action are either repelled or reduced to terms of this universe.”

52. “Ideas, aspirations, and objectives that, by their content, transcend the established universe of discourse and action are either repelled or reduced to terms of this universe.”

— Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse Quote: “Non-operational ideas are non-behavioral and subversive. The movement of thought is stopped at barriers which appear as the limits of Reason itself.”

53. “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

Herbert Marcuse Quote: “Domination has its own aesthetics, and democratic domination has its democratic aesthetics.”

54. “Domination has its own aesthetics, and democratic domination has its democratic aesthetics.”

— Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse Quote: “The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions which bind the consumers to the producers and, through the latter to the whole social system. The products indoctrinate and manipulate; they promote a false consciousness which is immune against its falsehood... Thus emerges a pattern of one-dimensional thought and behavior.”

55. “The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions which bind the consumers to the producers and, through the latter to the whole social system. The products indoctrinate and manipulate; they promote a false consciousness which is immune against its falsehood... Thus emerges a pattern of one-dimensional thought and behavior.”

— Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse Quote: “The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative.”

56. “The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative.”

— Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse Quote: “For Marcuse, the distinguishing features of a human being are free and creative subjectivity. If in one’s economic and social life one is administered by a technical labor apparatus and conforms to dominant social norms, one is losing one’s potentialities of self-determination and individuality. Alienated from the powers of being-a-self, one-dimensional man thus becomes an object of administration and conformity.”

57. “For Marcuse, the distinguishing features of a human being are free and creative subjectivity. If in one’s economic and social life one is administered by a technical labor apparatus and conforms to dominant social norms, one is losing one’s potentialities of self-determination and individuality. Alienated from the powers of being-a-self, one-dimensional man thus becomes an object of administration and conformity.”

— Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse Quote: “Thought and speech are of a thinking and speaking subject, and if the life of the latter depends on the performance of a superimposed function, it depends on fulfilling the requirements of this function thus it depends on those who control these requirements.”

58. “Thought and speech are of a thinking and speaking subject, and if the life of the latter depends on the performance of a superimposed function, it depends on fulfilling the requirements of this function thus it depends on those who control these requirements.”

— Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse Quote: “The most effective and enduring form of warfare against liberation is the implanting of material and intellectual needs that perpetuate obsolete forms of the struggle for existence.”

59. “The most effective and enduring form of warfare against liberation is the implanting of material and intellectual needs that perpetuate obsolete forms of the struggle for existence.”

— Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse Quote: “Our society distinguishes itself by conquering the centrifugal social forces with Technology rather than Terror, on the dual basis of an overwhelming efficiency and an increasing standard of living.”

60. “Our society distinguishes itself by conquering the centrifugal social forces with Technology rather than Terror, on the dual basis of an overwhelming efficiency and an increasing standard of living.”

— Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse Quote: “The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will.”

61. “The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will.”

— Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse Quote: “We are possessed by our images, suffer our own images.”

62. “We are possessed by our images, suffer our own images.”

— Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse Quote: “The closed language does not demonstrate and explain it communicates decision, dictum, command. Where it defines, the definition becomes “separation of good from evil;” it establishes unquestionable.”

63. “The closed language does not demonstrate and explain it communicates decision, dictum, command. Where it defines, the definition becomes “separation of good from evil;” it establishes unquestionable.”

— Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse Quote: “Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.”

64. “Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.”

— Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse Quote: “One will only be free when one plays and one’s society will become a piece of art.”

65. “One will only be free when one plays and one’s society will become a piece of art.”

— Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse Quote: “The world of immediate experience the world in which we find ourselves living must be comprehended, transformed, even subverted in order to become that which it really is.”

66. “The world of immediate experience the world in which we find ourselves living must be comprehended, transformed, even subverted in order to become that which it really is.”

— Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse Quote: “The societal division of labor obtains the dignity of an ontological condition.”

67. “The societal division of labor obtains the dignity of an ontological condition.”

— Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse Quote: “For “totalitarian” is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a nonterroristic economic-technical coordination which operates through the manipulation of needs by vested interests. It.”

68. “For “totalitarian” is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a nonterroristic economic-technical coordination which operates through the manipulation of needs by vested interests. It.”

— Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse Quote: “The range of socially permissible and desirable satisfaction is greatly enlarged, but through this satisfaction, the Pleasure Principle is reduced deprived of the claims which are irreconcilable with the established society. Pleasure, thus adjusted, generates submission.”

69. “The range of socially permissible and desirable satisfaction is greatly enlarged, but through this satisfaction, the Pleasure Principle is reduced deprived of the claims which are irreconcilable with the established society. Pleasure, thus adjusted, generates submission.”

— Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse Quote: “But with all its truth, the argument cannot answer the time-honored question: who educates the educators, and where is the proof that they are in possession of “the good?”

70. “But with all its truth, the argument cannot answer the time-honored question: who educates the educators, and where is the proof that they are in possession of “the good?”

— Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse Quote: “Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.”

71. “Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.”

— Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse Quote: “Solitude, the very condition which sustained the individual against and beyond his society, has become technically impossible.”

72. “Solitude, the very condition which sustained the individual against and beyond his society, has become technically impossible.”

— Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse Quote: “The slaves of developed industrial Civilization are sublimated slaves, but they are slaves, for slavery is determined “neither by obedience nor by hardness of labour but by the status of being mere instrument, and the reduction of man to the state of a thing.”

73. “The slaves of developed industrial Civilization are sublimated slaves, but they are slaves, for slavery is determined “neither by obedience nor by hardness of labour but by the status of being mere instrument, and the reduction of man to the state of a thing.”

— Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse Quote: “Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination. The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.”

74. “Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination. The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.”

— Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse Quote: “Precisely because Galilean science is, in the formation of its concepts, the technic of a specific Lebenswelt, it does not and cannot transcend this Lebenswelt. It remains essentially within the basic experiential framework and within the universe of ends set by this reality.”

75. “Precisely because Galilean science is, in the formation of its concepts, the technic of a specific Lebenswelt, it does not and cannot transcend this Lebenswelt. It remains essentially within the basic experiential framework and within the universe of ends set by this reality.”

— Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse Quote: “Coming to life as classics, they come to life as other than themselves; they are deprived of their antagonistic force, of the estrangement which was the very dimension of their truth.”

76. “Coming to life as classics, they come to life as other than themselves; they are deprived of their antagonistic force, of the estrangement which was the very dimension of their truth.”

— Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse Quote: “This language, which constantly imposes images, militates against the development and expression of concepts.”

77. “This language, which constantly imposes images, militates against the development and expression of concepts.”

— Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse Quote: “Whether ritualized or not, art contains the rationality of negation. In its advanced positions, it is the Great Refusal – the protest against that which is.”

78. “Whether ritualized or not, art contains the rationality of negation. In its advanced positions, it is the Great Refusal – the protest against that which is.”

— Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse Quote: “The world is an estranged and untrue world so long as man does not destroy its dead objectivity and recognize himself and his own life ‘behind’ the fixed form of things and laws. When he finally wins this self-consciousness, he is on his way not only to the truth of himself, but also of his world. And with the recognition goes the doing. He will try to put this truth into action, and make the world what it essentially is, namely, the fulfillment of man’s self-consciousness.”

79. “The world is an estranged and untrue world so long as man does not destroy its dead objectivity and recognize himself and his own life ‘behind’ the fixed form of things and laws. When he finally wins this self-consciousness, he is on his way not only to the truth of himself, but also of his world. And with the recognition goes the doing. He will try to put this truth into action, and make the world what it essentially is, namely, the fulfillment of man’s self-consciousness.”

— Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse Quote: “The present stage redefines the possibilities of man and nature in accordance with the new means available for their realization.”

80. “The present stage redefines the possibilities of man and nature in accordance with the new means available for their realization.”

— Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse Quote: “Timelessness is the ideal of pleasure.”

81. “Timelessness is the ideal of pleasure.”

— Herbert Marcuse

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