Herbert Marcuse Needs Quotations

All liberation depends on the consciousness of servitude, and the emergence of this consciousness is always hampered by the predominance of needs and satisfactions which, to a great extent, have become the individual's own.

Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity.

The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control.