An Essay on Liberation Quotes

“At this stage, the question is no longer: how can the individual satisfy his own needs without hurting others, but rather: how can he satisfy his needs without hurting himself, without reproducing, through his aspirations and satisfactions, his dependence on an exploitative apparatus which, in satisfying his needs, perpetuates his servitude? The”
― Herbert Marcuse, An Essay on Liberation

“a political practice of methodical disengagement from and refusal of the Establishment, aiming at a radical transvaluation of values. Such a practice involves a break with the familiar, the routine ways of seeing, hearing, feeling, understanding things so that the organism may become receptive to the potential forms of a nonaggressive, nonexploitative world.”
― Herbert Marcuse, An Essay on Liberation

“For freedom indeed depends largely on technical progress, on the advancement of science. But this fact easily obscures the essential precondition: in order to become vehicles of freedom, science and technology would have to change their present direction and goals; they would have to be reconstructed in accord with a new sensibility – the demands of the life instincts. Then one could speak of a technology of liberation, product of a scientific imagination free to project and design the forms of a human universe without exploitation and toil. But this gaya scienza is conceivable only after the historical break in the continuum of domination as expressive of the needs of a new type of man.”
― Herbert Marcuse, An Essay on Liberation

“The new sensibility has become, by this very token, praxis: it emerges in the struggle against violence and exploitation where this struggle is waged for essentially new ways and forms of life: negation of the entire Establishment, its morality, culture; affirmation of the right to build a society in which the abolition of poverty and toil terminates in a universe where the sensuous, the playful, the calm, and the beautiful become forms of existence and thereby the Form of the society itself.”
― Herbert Marcuse, An Essay on Liberation

“Mutluluğun öznel duygulardan fazlasını talep eden nesnel bir durum olduğu düşüncesi etkin bir şekilde bulanıklaştırılmıştır; bu düşüncenin geçerliliği "insan" türünün samimi dayanışmasına bağlıdır, ki bu dayanışmayı karşıt sınıflara ve uluslara bölünmüş bir toplum gösteremez.”
― Herbert Marcuse, An Essay on Liberation

“ütopya" olarak suçlanan şey artık "yeri olmayan" ve tarihsel evren içerisinde yeri olamayacak olan şey değil, fakat daha çok, meydana gelmesi yerleşik toplumların güçleri tarafından engellenen şeydir.”
― Herbert Marcuse, An Essay on Liberation

“... öğrenci hareketi özgür bir toplumun gerçek gereksinimi ve gerçek olanağıdır.”
― Herbert Marcuse, An Essay on Liberation