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Society Quotes by Herbert Marcuse
- Glorification of the 'natural' is part of the ideology which protects an unnatural society in its struggle against liberation.
- Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity.
- There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.
- 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…
- This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression.
- Technological rationality reveals its political character as it becomes the great vehicle of better domination, creating a truely totalitarian universe in which society and nature,…
- One will only be free when one plays and one's society will become a piece of art.
- The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.
- The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the…
- 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…
- By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For "totalitarian" is not only a terroristic…
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