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title: "4 Commodity Quotes By Herbert Marcuse"
description: "4 Commodity quotes by Herbert Marcuse. Plus more from Herbert Marcuse and more Commodity sayings from other authors."
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> [If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-marcuse/if-mass-communications-blend-together-harmoniously-and-often/)

[Herbert Marcuse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-marcuse/)

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> [Bourgeois political economy ... never gets to see man who is its real subject. It disregards the essence of man and his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-marcuse/bourgeois-political-economy-never-gets-to-see-man-who-is-its-real/)

[Herbert Marcuse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-marcuse/)

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> [The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-marcuse/the-so-called-consumer-society-and-the-politics-of-corporate/)

[Herbert Marcuse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-marcuse/)

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> [Technical progress and more comfortable living permit the systematic inclusion of libidinal components into the realm of commodity production and exchange. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-marcuse/technical-progress-and-more-comfortable-living-permit-the-systematic/)

[Herbert Marcuse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-marcuse/)

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## Other authors on Commodity

## More by Herbert Marcuse

> [The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-marcuse/the-strains-and-stresses-suffered-by-the-individual-in-society-are/)

[Herbert Marcuse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-marcuse/)

> [ \[Art\] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-marcuse/art-can-speak-its-own-language-only-as-long-as-the-images-are-alive/)

[Herbert Marcuse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-marcuse/if-man-has-learned-to-see-and-know-what-really-is-he-will-act-in/)

[Herbert Marcuse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-marcuse/)

> [Hypostatized into a ritual pattern, Marxian theory becomes ideology. But its content and function distinguish it from classical forms of ideology; it is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-marcuse/hypostatized-into-a-ritual-pattern-marxian-theory-becomes-ideology/)

[Herbert Marcuse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-marcuse/art-cannot-change-the-world-but-it-can-contribute-to-changing-the/)

[Herbert Marcuse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-marcuse/)

> [That which is cannot be true.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-marcuse/that-which-is-cannot-be-true/)

[Herbert Marcuse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-marcuse/)

> [The closed language does not demonstrate and explain it communicates decision, dictum, command. Where it defines, the definition becomes "separation of good from evil;"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-marcuse/the-closed-language-does-not-demonstrate-and-explain-it-communicates/)

[Herbert Marcuse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-marcuse/)

> [The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-marcuse/the-apparatus-defeats-its-own-purpose-if-its-purpose-is-to-create-a/)

[Herbert Marcuse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-marcuse/)

> [“As Hegel defines it: "Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us." ... Reason is the negation of the negative.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-marcuse/as-hegel-defines-it-thinking-is-indeed-essentially-the-negation-of/)

[Herbert Marcuse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-marcuse/)

> [The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-marcuse/the-precarious-ontological-link-between-logos-and-eros-is-broken-and/)

[Herbert Marcuse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-marcuse/)

> [If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture to their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-marcuse/if-mass-communications-blend-together-harmoniously-and-often/)

[Herbert Marcuse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-marcuse/)

> [This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-marcuse/this-society-turns-everything-it-touches-into-a-potential-source-of/)

[Herbert Marcuse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-marcuse/)

> [Dialectical thought understands the critical tension between "is" and "ought" first as an ontological condition, pertaining to the structure of Being itself. However, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-marcuse/dialectical-thought-understands-the-critical-tension-between-is-and/)

[Herbert Marcuse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-marcuse/)

> [Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-marcuse/obscenity-is-a-moral-concept-in-the-verbal-arsenal-of-the/)

[Herbert Marcuse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-marcuse/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-marcuse/for-totalitarian-is-not-only-a-terroristic-political-coordination-of/)

[Herbert Marcuse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-marcuse/)

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