Most people are afraid of freedom. They are conditioned to be afraid of it. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Free choice - a small selection between pre-established necessities. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Glorification of the 'natural' is part of the ideology which protects an unnatural society in its struggle against liberation. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
One will only be free when one plays and one's society will become a piece of art. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
In its relation to the reality of daily life, the high culture of the past was many things opposition and adornment, outcry… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
All liberation depends on the consciousness of servitude, and the emergence of this consciousness is always hampered by the predominance of needs… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Inasmuch as art preserves, with the promise of happiness, the memory of the goal that failed, it can enter, as a 'regulative… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free choice among a wide variety of goods and services… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
A work of art can be called revolutionary if, by virtue of the aesthetic transformation, it represents, in the exemplary fate of… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to starve, it spelled toil,… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The organism is thus being preconditioned for the spontaneous acceptance of what is offered. Inasmuch as the greater liberty involves a contraction… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
It is generally admitted that the cultural values (humanization) and the existing institutions and policies of society are rarely,if ever, in harmony.… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
However, if "free choice" means more than a small selection between pre-established necessities, and if the inclinations and impulses used in work… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share
[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share
If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share
Hypostatized into a ritual pattern, Marxian theory becomes ideology. But its content and function distinguish it from classical forms of ideology; it is not… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share
Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share
The closed language does not demonstrate and explain it communicates decision, dictum, command. Where it defines, the definition becomes "separation of good from evil;"… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share
The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share
“As Hegel defines it: "Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us." ... Reason is the negation of the negative.… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share
The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share
If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture to their… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share
This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share
Dialectical thought understands the critical tension between "is" and "ought" first as an ontological condition, pertaining to the structure of Being itself. However, the… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share
“For "totalitarian" is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a non-terroristic economic-technical coordination which operates through the manipulation of needs… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share
