The tangible source of exploitation disappears behind the façade of objective rationality.

- Herbert Marcuse

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

- Herbert Marcuse

Most people are afraid of freedom. They are conditioned to be afraid of it.

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

- Herbert Marcuse

The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization

- Herbert Marcuse

The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressive…

- Herbert Marcuse

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

- Herbert Marcuse