Crime Quote by Herbert Marcuse

“When the whole is at stake, there is no crime except that of rejecting the whole, or not defending it. ... Those who identify themselves with the whole, who are installed as the leaders and defenders of the whole can make mistakes, but they cannot do wrong - they are not guilty. They may become guilty again when this identification no longer holds, when they are gone.”

Herbert Marcuse

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings)

Crime Defenders Failure Gone Guilty Identification Leader Leadership Making mistakes May Mistake Not guilty Rejecting Stakes Whole

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…

Herbert Marcuse

Image

[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order.

Herbert Marcuse

Image

If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and…

Herbert Marcuse

Image

Hypostatized into a ritual pattern, Marxian theory becomes ideology. But its content and function distinguish it from classical forms of ideology; it is not…

Herbert Marcuse

Image

Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the…

Herbert Marcuse

Image

That which is cannot be true.

Herbert Marcuse

Image

The closed language does not demonstrate and explain it communicates decision, dictum, command. Where it defines, the definition becomes "separation of good from evil;"…

Herbert Marcuse

Image

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

Herbert Marcuse

Image

“As Hegel defines it: "Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us." ... Reason is the negation of the negative.…

Herbert Marcuse

Image

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

Herbert Marcuse

Image

If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture to their…

Herbert Marcuse

Image

This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression.

Herbert Marcuse

Image

Explore all 123 Herbert Marcuse quotes

More Crime quotes

Joking about violence is not funny.

Perez Hilton

Image

“Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad situations. The…

Johnnie Dent Jr

Image

With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.

Karin Slaughter

Image

“The jailers, the Court, everyone in that building – it wasn’t about justice; it was about obedience and intimidation…about maintaining order. Fear accomplished that…

Jay Allan

Image

Taking notes while watching Forensic Files and Snapped. I don't want to make the same mistakes the criminals do! ;)

Nishan Panwar

Image

A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled…

Edward Abbey

Image

Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely…

Terry Eagleton