Herbert Marcuse Quotes


"The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment."
- Herbert Marcuse
(Related: Home, Soul, People, Kitchen)

"Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production."
- Herbert Marcuse
(Related: Girlfriend, 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."
- Herbert Marcuse
(Related: Morality)

"The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it."
- Herbert Marcuse
(Related: Society, Reason)