Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Inasmuch as art preserves, with the promise of happiness, the memory of the goal that failed, it can enter, as a 'regulative idea,' the desperate struggle for changing the world. Against all fetishism of the productive forces, against the continued enslavement of individuals by the objective conditions (which remain those of domination), art represents the ultimate goal of all revolutions: the freedom and happiness of the individual.

Herbert Marcuse's Popular Quotes

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

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

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

- 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