Aesthetic Form Quotes by Herbert Marcuse

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• Glorification of the 'natural' is part of the ideology which protects an unnatural society in its struggle against liberation.
• The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization
• One-dimensional thought is systematically promoted by the makers of politics and their purveyors of mass information. Their universe of discourse is populated…
• Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions…
• The intellectual is called on the carpet... Don't you conceal something? You talk a language which is suspect. You don't talk like…
• Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.
• A work of art can be called revolutionary if, by virtue of the aesthetic transformation, it represents, in the exemplary fate of…
• Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could…
• Free choice - a small selection between pre-established necessities.
• The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression.
• At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one.
• The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative.

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