The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment. -Herbert Marcuse

 

The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.


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This quote is just one of 7 total Herbert Marcuse quotes in our collection. Herbert Marcuse is known for saying 'The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.' as well as some of the following quotes.

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

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.

Herbert Marcuse

That which is cannot be true.

Herbert Marcuse

Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production.

Herbert Marcuse

The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.

Herbert Marcuse