One-dimensional thought is systematically promoted by the makers of politics and their purveyors of mass information. Their universe of discourse is populated by self-validating hypotheses which, incessantly and monopolistically repeated, become hyponotic definitions of dictations.
Herbert MarcuseThose who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence.
Herbert MarcuseThe web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.
Herbert MarcuseThe intellectual is called on the carpet... Don't you conceal something? You talk a language which is suspect. You don't talk like the rest of us, like the man in the street, but rather like a foreigner who does not belong here. We have to cut you down to size, expose your tricks, purge you.
Herbert Marcuse