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Marcuse Herbert

1898 - 1979 (81)

Marcuse Herbert
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Quote 1

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

Quote 2

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

Quote 3

The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control.

Quote 4

Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence.

Quote 5

Entertainment and learning are not opposites; entertainment may be the most effective mode of learning.

Quote 6

There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.

Quote 7

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.