“All liberation depends on the consciousness of servitude, and the emergence of this consciousness is always hampered by the predominance of needs and satisfactions which, to a great extent, have become the individual's own.”

— Herbert Marcuse , book One-Dimensional Man

Source: One-Dimensional Man (1964), p. 7

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German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist 1898–1979

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