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Thought that accepts reality as given is no thought at all.
Herbert Marcuse
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Herbert Marcuse
Age: 81 †
Born: 1898
Born: July 19
Died: 1979
Died: July 29
Philosopher
Political Theorist
Sociologist
University Teacher
Berlin
Germany
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Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.
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Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.
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Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left.
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Coming to life as classics, they come to life as other than themselves they are deprived of their antagonistic force, of the estrangement which was the very dimension of their truth.
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Our mass media have little difficulty in selling particular interests as those of all sensible men. The political needs of society become individual needs and aspirations, their satisfaction promotes business and the commonweal, and the whole appeals to be the very embodiment of Reason.
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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.
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The unification of opposites which characterizes the commercial and political style is one of the many ways in which discourse and communication make themselves immune against the expression of protest and refusal.
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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.
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The happy consciousness is shaky enough a thin surface over fear, frustration, and disgust.
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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.
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The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.
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This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression.
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Glorification of the 'natural' is part of the ideology which protects an unnatural society in its struggle against liberation.
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Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence.
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Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.
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Domination has its own aesthetics, and democratic domination has its democratic aesthetics.
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Society ... can afford to grant more than before because its interests have become the innermost drives of its citizens.
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The liberating force of technology the instrumentalization of things turns into ... the instrumentalization of man.
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In its relation to the reality of daily life, the high culture of the past was many things opposition and adornment, outcry and resignation. But it was also the appearance of the realm of freedom: the refusal to behave.
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The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.
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