Marcuse, Herbert

"Health is not adjustment to the system but resistance to its pathologies."

"Adventure is always already domesticated under late capitalism."

"Imagination without power remains a private dream; power without imagination is blind."

"The future will be what we make it, or it will be made for us."

"Literature preserves the dimension of the beautiful against instrumental reason."

"War becomes invisible when it is diffused throughout the fabric of society."

"The one-dimensional society tolerates difference only as a commodity."

"Change is only revolutionary when it breaks with the logic of the system."

"Solitude is not retreat but the space where critical thought becomes possible."

"Beauty emerges only where utility is transcended."

"The negation of the negative is not yet affirmative; it is the threshold of freedom."

"Humor that challenges power is immediately recuperated as entertainment."

"Success in an unjust system is complicity in that system."

"Knowledge is power, and power prevents the critical use of knowledge."

"The administered society leaves no space for the spontaneous and unplanned."

"Oppression becomes internalized before it is recognized as oppression."

"The new can only emerge from the thoroughgoing negation of the old."

"Hope without practice is illusion; practice without hope is blind repetition."

"Freedom is not a state of mind but a material reorganization of society."

"The price of technological progress is the colonization of all human activity."

"Peace built on injustice is war prolonged by other means."

"The repressed content of civilization returns to haunt the present moment."

"Genuine education is education for refusal, not for adaptation."

"Love becomes revolutionary when it refuses to be domesticated into the nuclear family."