Quotes by Herbert Marcuse

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• 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
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• Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be.

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

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

  ― Herbert Marcuse
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Subjects in these quotes:

• self-determination
• expressions
• communicate
• commodities
• split-level
• themselves

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