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1. "The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the commodity form. The need for possessing, consuming, handling and constantly renewing the gadgets, devices, instruments, engines, offered to and imposed upon the people, for using these wares even at the danger of one's own destruction, has become a "biological" need." ~ Herbert Marcuse
2. "The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real." ~ Herbert Marcuse
3. "The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions which bind the consumers to the producers and, through the latter to the whole social system. The products indoctrinate and manipulate; they promote a false consciousness which is immune against its falsehood...Thus emerges a pattern of one-dimensional thought and behavior." ~ Herbert Marcuse
4. "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
5. "One-dimensional thought is systematically promoted by the makers of politics and their purveyors of mass information. Their universe of discourse is populated by self-validating hypotheses which, incessantly and monopolistically repeated, become hyponotic definitions of dictations." ~ Herbert Marcuse
6. "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
7. "The Orphic symbols center on the singing god who lives to defeat death and who liberates nature, so that the constrained and constraining matter releases the beautiful and playful forms of animate and inanimate things. No longer striving and no longer desiring ‘for something still to be attained,' they are free from fear and fetter – and thus free per se. The contemplation of Narcissus repels all other activity in the erotic surrender to beauty, inseparably uniting his own existence with nature." ~ Herbert Marcuse
8. "... ögrenci hareketi özgür bir toplumun gerçek gereksinimi ve gerçek olanagidir." ~ Herbert Marcuse
9. "Le persone si riconoscono nelle loro merci; trovano la loro anima nella loro automobile, nel giradischi ad alta fedeltà, nella casa a due piani, nell'attrezzatura della cucina. Lo stesso meccanismo che lega l'individuo alla sua società è mutato, e il controllo sociale è radicato nei nuovi bisogni che esso ha prodotto." ~ Herbert Marcuse
10. "[…] en esta totalidad apenas es ya posible la distinción conceptual entre los negocios y la política, el beneficio y el prestigio, las necesidades y la publicidad. Se exporta un "modo de vida", o se exporta a sí mismo en la dinámica de la totalidad. Con el capital, los ordenadores y el saber-vivir, llegan los restantes "valores": relaciones libidinosas con la mercancía, con los artefactos motorizados agresivos, con la estética falsa del supermercado." ~ Herbert Marcuse
11. "If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up as the daughter of her employer, if the Negro owns a Cadillac, if they all read the same newspaper, then this assimilation indicates not the disappearance of classes, but the extent to which the needs and satisfactions that serve the preservation of the Establishment are shared by the underlying population." ~ Herbert Marcuse
12. "The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment." ~ Herbert Marcuse
13. "Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves." ~ Herbert Marcuse
14. "The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it." ~ Herbert Marcuse
15. "Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination." ~ Herbert Marcuse
16. "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
17. "The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative." ~ Herbert Marcuse
18. "At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one." ~ Herbert Marcuse
19. "Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production." ~ Herbert Marcuse
20. "That which is cannot be true." ~ Herbert Marcuse
21. "Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under the law of the established reality principle...The encounter with the truth of art happens in the estranging language and images which make perceptible, visible, and audible that which is no longer, or not yet, perceived, said, and heard in everyday life." ~ Herbert Marcuse

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