Top 30 Best Marcuse Quotes

#1. The Superego, in censoring the unconscious and in implanting conscience, also censors the censor.

Herbert Marcuse

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#2. 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

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#3. Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

Herbert Marcuse

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#4. Ideas, aspirations, and objectives that, by their content, transcend the established universe of discourse and action are either repelled or reduced to terms of this universe.

Herbert Marcuse

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#5. Domination has its own aesthetics, and democratic domination has its democratic aesthetics.

Herbert Marcuse

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#6. Nobody really thinks who does not abstract from that which is given, who does not relate the facts to the factors which have made them, who does not in his mind undo the facts. Abstractness is the very life of thought, the token of its authenticity.

Herbert Marcuse

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#7. The world of immediate experience the world in which we find ourselves living must be comprehended, transformed, even subverted in order to become that which it really is.

Herbert Marcuse

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#8. The way in which a society organizes the life of its members ... is one "project" of realization among others. But once the project has become operative in the basic institutions and relations, it tends to become exclusive and to determine the development of the society as a whole.

Herbert Marcuse

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

Herbert Marcuse

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#10. The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value counts. On it centers the rationality of the status quo, and all alien rationality is bent to It.

Herbert Marcuse

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#11. The intellectual is called on the carpet ... Don't you conceal something? You talk a language which is suspect. You don't talk like the rest of us, like the man in the street, but rather like a foreigner who does not belong here. We have to cut you down to size, expose your tricks, purge you.

Herbert Marcuse

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#12. Thought that accepts reality as given is no thought at all.

Herbert Marcuse

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#13. The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather than in its disturbances and diseases.

Herbert Marcuse

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

Herbert Marcuse

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#15. The people are led to find in the productive apparatus the effective agent of thought and action to which their personal thought and action can and must be surrendered. And in this transfer, the apparatus also assumes the role of a moral agent. Conscience is absolved by reification.

Herbert Marcuse

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#16. Technological rationality reveals its political character as it becomes the great vehicle of better domination, creating a truely totalitarian universe in which society and nature, mind and body are kept in a state of permanent mobilization for the defense of this universe.

Herbert Marcuse

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#17. Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production.

Herbert Marcuse

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#18. Marcuse wrote: "Perhaps an accident may alter the situation, but unless the recognition of what is being done and what is being prevented subverts the consciousness and the behavior of man, not even a catastrophe will bring about the change." ...

Daniel Pinchbeck

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#19. Precisely because Galilean science is, in the formation of its concepts, the technic of a specific Lebenswelt , it does not and cannot transcend this Lebenswelt . It remains essentially within the basic experiential framework and within the universe of ends set by this reality.

Herbert Marcuse

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

Herbert Marcuse

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

Herbert Marcuse

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#22. Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence.

Herbert Marcuse

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#23. The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative.

Herbert Marcuse

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#24. The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression.

Herbert Marcuse

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#25. Marcuse also believed that sexuality was a political., an ideological, category, not found but made.

Richard A. Posner

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#26. The happy consciousness is shaky enough a thin surface over fear, frustration, and disgust.

Herbert Marcuse

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

Herbert Marcuse

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

Herbert Marcuse

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#29. The functional language is a radically anti-historical language: operational rationality has little room and little use for historical reason.

Herbert Marcuse

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#30. Entertainment and learning are not opposites; entertainment may be the most effective mode of learning.

Herbert Marcuse

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