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This is the pure form of servitude: to exist as an instrument.
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Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.
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The slaves of developed industrial civilization are sublimated slaves.
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The societal division of labor obtains the dignity of an ontological condition.
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Behind the aesthetic form lies the repressed harmony of sensuousness and reason
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Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.
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Domination has its own aesthetics, and democratic domination has its democratic aesthetics.
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The tangible source of exploitation disappears behind the façade of objective rationality.
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Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence.
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The happy consciousness is shaky enough—a thin surface over fear, frustration, and disgust.
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The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative.
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The Superego, in censoring the unconscious and in implanting conscience, also censors the censor.
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At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one.
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Entertainment and learning are not opposites; entertainment may be the most effective mode of learning.
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The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.
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[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order.
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The liberating force of technology—the instrumentalization of things—turns into … the instrumentalization of man.
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The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.
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Society … can afford to grant more than before because its interests have become the innermost drives of its citizens.
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The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral.
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Glorification of the 'natural' is part of the ideology which protects an unnatural society in its struggle against liberation.
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Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left.
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The present stage redefines the possibilities of man and nature in accordance with the new means available for their realization.
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The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will.
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There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Born:
July 19, 1898
Died:
July 29, 1979
(aged 81)
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