“The Superego, in censoring the unconscious and in implanting conscience, also censors the censor.”

—  Herbert Marcuse , book One-Dimensional Man

Source: One-Dimensional Man (1964), p. 76

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German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist 1898–1979

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