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. Pbscene is not the picture of a naked woman who exposes her pubic hair but that of a fully clad general who exposes his medals rewarded in a war of aggression; obscene is not the ritual of the Hippies but the declaration of a high dignitary of the Church that war is necessary for peace.
The tangible source of exploitation disappears behind the façade of objective rationality. - Herbert Marcuse
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
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.
Most people are afraid of freedom. They are conditioned to be afraid of it. - Herbert Marcuse
Most people are afraid of freedom. They are conditioned to be afraid of it.
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 people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.
The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral. - Herbert Marcuse
The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral.
The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization - Herbert Marcuse
The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization
Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination. - Herbert Marcuse
Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.
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
The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressive…
Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left. - Herbert Marcuse
Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left.
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