Herbert Marcuse Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: July 19, 1898 - July 29, 1979

Topics

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I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on.

John Barton

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The farther we peer into space, the more we realize that the nature of the universe cannot be understood fully by inspecting spiral galaxies or watching distant supernovas. It lies deeper. It involves our very selves.

Robert Lanza

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The bands that have been the most important to me, and the records that have been the most important to me as a fan, have been records that surprised me for one reason or another.

Steve Albini

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We have a few young people who are very successful in it, and this gives us the wrong impression that the whole country can live off high tech.

Stef Wertheimer

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I would like to score goals in every game.

Son Heung-min

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China's use of 'night soil,' as the Chinese rightly call a manure that is collected after dark, is probably the reason that its soils are still healthy after four millennia of intensive agriculture, while other great civilizations - the Maya, for one - floundered when their soils turned to dust.

Rose George

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Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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As much as I might decry the students, as much as they're a nightmare, it's a privilege to be among youth.

Louise Wilson

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I've always put myself intensely into my work.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

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I look back with a mix of emotions: sadness for the people who are gone, nostalgia for times that have passed, but immense gratitude for the wonderful opportunities that came my way.

Dick Van Patten

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Not only is fur cruel, it's also totally gross. I mean, who wants to wear the skin of an abused animal? Not me!

Dionne Bromfield

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I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.

Cherie Lunghi

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