Herbert Marcuse

"Capitalist society produces false needs to maintain false consciousness."

"The sexual revolution has been co-opted into another form of control."

"Tolerance of the established system is complicity with injustice."

"The culture industry manufactures consent through manufactured desire."

"Authentic happiness is impossible under conditions of systematic repression."

"Language itself can become an instrument of domination."

"The negation of negation is the path to liberation."

"Technological rationality masks the underlying irrationality of the system."

"Education should teach people to think against the grain of society."

"The masses are pacified not through violence but through creature comforts."

"Repressive desublimation allows the system to absorb opposition."

"The individual is subsumed into the machinery of administered society."

"Progress under capitalism is indistinguishable from regression."

"Mental health in a sick society may itself be a form of sickness."

"The intellectual has a responsibility to speak truth to power."

"History is not inevitable; it remains open to radical change."

"Imagination is a dangerous weapon against the status quo."

"The system survives by converting rebellion into commodity."

"True knowledge requires transcending the categories imposed by the dominant ideology."

"Labor under capitalism is the antithesis of authentic freedom."

"The dream of utopia must remain alive despite present conditions."

"What is called common sense is merely internalized oppression."

"The irrational rationality of the system perpetuates itself invisibly."

"Beauty in art points to what does not yet exist in reality."

"Power operates most effectively when it appears invisible."

"The unexamined life under capitalism is the well-adjusted life."

"Critique without the possibility of transformation is complicit."

"The administered world leaves no space for authentic spontaneity."

"Happiness becomes a tool of control when it serves the system."

"Great literature preserves possibilities that reality has suppressed."