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Herbert Marcuse

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Entertainment and learning are not opposites entertainment may be the most effective mode of learning.
Herbert Marcuse
The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.
Herbert Marcuse
Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.
Herbert Marcuse
The web of domination has become the web of reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.
Herbert Marcuse
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.
Herbert Marcuse
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 communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be.
Herbert Marcuse
Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.
Herbert Marcuse
At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one.
Herbert Marcuse
The present stage redefines the possibilities of man and nature in accordance with the new means available for their realization.
Herbert Marcuse
The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.
Herbert Marcuse
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 and what is chosen by the individual.
Herbert Marcuse
Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production.
Herbert Marcuse
The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative.
Herbert Marcuse
That which is cannot be true.
Herbert Marcuse

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