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

— Herbert Marcuse, book One-Dimensional Man

Source: One-Dimensional Man (1964), p. 8

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German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist 1898–1979

Russell Berman (1950) American academic

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“Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.”

Daniel H. Pink (1964) American business writer

“We live in a world in which individuals and businessmen… they want to do so unencumbered by national boundaries. At the same time, modern democracies, at least as much as other forms of government, long for autonomy; they want to control their own destinies in ways responsive to the needs of an electorate often concerned less with national than with local or sectorial interests. Yet, theory and experience indicate we can’t have it both ways, full integration and full autonomy.”

Paul Volcker (1927–2019) American economist

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“The emphasis must not be on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.”

Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

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“New schemas are even established which the child looks for and retains with care, as though they were obligatory or charged with efficacy.”

Jean Piaget (1896–1980) Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher & academic

Source: The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932), Ch. 1 : The Rules of the Game, § 9 : Conclusions : Motor Rules and the Two Kinds of Respect
Context: Mixture of assimilation to earlier schemas and adaptation to the actual conditions of the situation is what defines motor intelligence. But — and this is where rules come into existence — as soon as a balance is established between adaptation and assimilation, the course of conduct adopted becomes crystallized and ritualized. New schemas are even established which the child looks for and retains with care, as though they were obligatory or charged with efficacy.