The distinction between true and false consciousness, real and immediate interest still is meaningful. But this distinction itself must be validated. Men must come to see it and to find their way from false to true consciousness, from their immediate to their real interest. They can do so only if they live in need of changing their way of life, of denying the positive, of refusing. It is precisely this need which the established society manages to repress to the degree to which it is capable of delivering the goods on an increasingly large scale, and using the scientific conquest of nature for the scientific conquest of man.


pp. xiii-xiv - One-Dimensional Man (1964)

Herbert Marcuse Quotes

The distinction between true and false consciousness, real and immediate interest still is meaningful. But this distinction itself must be validated. ...

The distinction between true and false consciousness, real and immediate interest still is meaningful. But this distinction itself must be validated. ...

The distinction between true and false consciousness, real and immediate interest still is meaningful. But this distinction itself must be validated. ...

The distinction between true and false consciousness, real and immediate interest still is meaningful. But this distinction itself must be validated. ...