Herbert Marcuse Quotes About Liberty

Quotes about: Liberty

• Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Powerful, Liberty, Made

  Herbert Marcuse (1964). “One dimensional man: studies in the ideology of advanced industrial society”

• The organism is thus being preconditioned for the spontaneous acceptance of what is offered. Inasmuch as the greater liberty involves a contraction rather than extension and development of instinctual needs, it works for rather than against the status quo of general repression - one might speak of "institutionalized desublimation". The latter appears to be a vital factor in the making of the authoritarian personality of our time.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Acceptance, Personality, Liberty

  Herbert Marcuse (2012). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.74, Beacon Press

• The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Liberty, Requirements, Instruments

  Herbert Marcuse (2015). “Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud”, p.92, Beacon Press

• Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to starve, it spelled toil, insecurity, and fear for the vast majority of the population. If the individual were no longer compelled to prove himself on the market, as a free economic subject, the disappearance of this freedom would be one of the greatest achievements of civilization.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Business, Blessing, Civilization

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.4, Routledge

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