Herbert Marcuse Quotes

The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.
Herbert Marcuse

Home, Find, Soul

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.
Herbert Marcuse

Free, Election, Slaves

The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.
Herbert Marcuse

Society, Become, Reason

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

Freedom, Human, Choice

At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one.
Herbert Marcuse

Revolution, Stage, Capitalism

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

Someone, Problem, Girlfriend

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

Another, Moral, Morality

That which is cannot be true.
Herbert Marcuse

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

Free, Choice, Neither

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

Powerful, Made, Liberty

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Philosopher

Born: July 18, 1898

Died: July 29, 1979

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