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Herbert Marcuse Quotes


A German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.
(1898 - 1979)


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

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.

That which is cannot be true.

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

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