There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.
Herbert MarcuseThe criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative.
Herbert MarcuseObscenity 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 MarcuseThe web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.
Herbert MarcuseWhile it [tolerance] is more or less quietly and constitutionally withdrawn from the opposition, it is made compulsory behavior with respect to established policies.
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