Intolerance Quote by Herbert Marcuse

“Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left.”

Herbert Marcuse

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The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.

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The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral.

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