Marcuse, Herbert

"The most effective and enduring form of warfare is the corruption of the word itself."

"Happiness and the search for it are allowed to lead men to their death."

"Freedom requires the elimination of violence and the threat of violence."

"Art has always been subordinated to the logic of the establishment."

"The system is not interested in your happiness; it is interested in your obedience."

"Repression is built into the very structure of civilization."

"One-dimensional thought is systematic, sure, certain; it reaches its happy end in the happy consciousness."

"The capacity to think for oneself is the first casualty of any totalitarian system."

"True freedom means the ability to say no."

"Culture industry produces standardized goods for mass consumption."

"The greatest threat to freedom is the pacification of the oppressed."

"Language itself has become a tool of domination."

"Love is the only force that can overcome repression."

"Work under capitalism is a form of controlled performance."

"The pursuit of true happiness requires the rejection of false needs."

"Tolerance of repression is not virtue but complicity."

"The individual has become incapable of thinking against the system."

"Peace without freedom is merely the peace of the cemetery."

"Innovation serves power, not liberation."

"The struggle for a better society begins with the refusal to accept things as they are."

"Consciousness is shaped by the world in which it develops."

"True education teaches people to question authority."

"The family is the first institution of repression."

"Hope lies in the ability to imagine alternatives."

"Art that serves power is not art but propaganda."

"History is the record of human liberation struggles."

"Sexuality has been rationalized and subsumed into the system."

"The elimination of scarcity does not mean the elimination of domination."

"Authentic happiness requires the transformation of society."

"Time is colonized by the demands of the system."