“The range of socially permissible and desirable satisfaction is greatly enlarged, but through this satisfaction, the Pleasure Principle is reduced—deprived of the claims which are irreconcilable with the established society. Pleasure, thus adjusted, generates submission.”

—  Herbert Marcuse, book One-Dimensional Man

Source: One-Dimensional Man (1964), p. 75

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German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist 1898–1979

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