Herbert Marcuse

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"Happiness and the search for it must be replaced by and identified with the idea of human emancipation."

"Art has always been a refuge for those who couldn't accept the world as it is."

"The struggle for existence is a struggle for power."

"Repressive tolerance is a weapon of domination."

"One-dimensional thought is systematically promoted by the makers of politics and the leaders of mass opinion."

"The most effective and enduring form of warfare is the corruption of the enemy's consciousness."

"Freedom requires the removal of repression."

"To be free means to be able to think one's own thoughts without domination."

"The people, by and large, have internalized their chains."

"A comfortable, smooth, reasonable, democratic unfreedom prevails in advanced industrial civilization."

"Truth and falsehood are not opposites, but degrees of distortion."

"The language of advertising is the language of power."

"Controlled spontaneity is the hallmark of advanced civilization."

"The mind and body must be united in the struggle for liberation."

"Philosophical thought begins in suffering."

"The most effective revolutionary force is critical thinking."

"We live in an age of contradictions that cannot be resolved within the existing system."

"False consciousness is maintained through the satisfaction of false needs."

"Art is the great refusal."

"Tolerance becomes suspect when it is extended to policies of oppression."

"The society produces individuals as it produces commodities."

"Only a small privileged minority is exempt from manipulation and regimentation."

"Imagination becomes a weapon when reality becomes unbearable."

"The reduction of thought to calculation is the reduction of human freedom."

"Love and despair are the only possible responses to this world."

"To be satisfied with given conditions is the death of thought."

"Progress and totalitarianism march hand in hand."

"The individual is no longer the agent of liberation but its victim."

"Culture serves as an instrument of domination."