Marcuse, Herbert

"Work that alienates corrupts the worker's humanity."

"Dreams abandoned are futures foreclosed."

"The best humor contains the sharpest critique."

"Beauty emerges where control is resisted."

"To accept death is to be free to live fully."

"Perseverance becomes virtue only when directed toward justice."

"Ingratitude toward injustice is moral clarity."

"The creative act is always a political act."

"Justice is the measure of all legitimate authority."

"Impatience with oppression is a sign of conscience."

"Kindness organized becomes solidarity."

"Strength is knowing when to bend without breaking."

"Fear conquered becomes the foundation of courage."

"The system perpetuates itself by making alternatives seem unthinkable"

"Repressive desublimation is the satisfaction of needs within the system of domination"

"We are not only repressed by external forces, but by internalized oppression"

"True freedom requires the abolition of false needs"

"The machinery of the affluent society is designed to reconcile us to oppression"

"Culture becomes a commodity in advanced industrial society"

"One-dimensional thinking prevents us from imagining different futures"

"The intellectuals have been integrated into the system they once criticized"

"Tolerance becomes a tool of oppression when it protects the powerful"

"We confuse consumer choice with genuine freedom"

"The system absorbs and neutralizes its own opposition"

"Advertising creates artificial needs that bind us to the status quo"

"Repression operates through pleasure as well as pain"

"The working class has become a consumer class, not a revolutionary class"

"Liberation requires imagination, not just political action"

"Bureaucracy becomes a form of social control"

"The given reality becomes the only possible reality"