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Individual Quotes by Herbert Marcuse
- The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization
- A work of art can be called revolutionary if, by virtue of the aesthetic transformation, it represents, in the exemplary fate of individuals, the prevailing…
- Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free choice among a wide variety of goods and services does not signify…
- There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.
- Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to starve, it spelled toil, insecurity, and fear…
- Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to…
- 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…
- Where these reduced (operational - E.W.) concepts govern the analysis of the human reality, individual or social, mental or material, they arrive at a false…
- The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather than…
- Inasmuch as art preserves, with the promise of happiness, the memory of the goal that failed, it can enter, as a 'regulative idea,' the desperate…
- The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and impulses of childhood…
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- For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual. — Irving Babbitt
- I always worked very hard against the unconstitutional individual mandate in health care. I didn't praise it. — Michele Bachmann
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