Quotes: Herbert, Cicero, Marcuse

This weeks assortment of random Quotes.

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Marcuse, Cicero, Herbert.

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“…I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” ― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Hope clouds observation.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.” ― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class — whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.” ― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“If you need something to worship, then worship life – all life, every last crawling bit of it! We’re all in this beauty together!” ― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!” ― Frank Herbert

“When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dun

“A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.” ― Frank Herbert

“There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.” ― Frank Herbert Dune

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.”
― Herbert Marcuse

“The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the commodity form. The need for possessing, consuming, handling and constantly renewing the gadgets, devices, instruments, engines, offered to and imposed upon the people, for using these wares even at the danger of one’s own destruction, has become a “biological” need.”
― Herbert Marcuse

“If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up as the daughter of her employer, if the Negro owns a Cadillac, if they all read the same newspaper, then this assimilation indicates not the disappearance of classes, but the extent to which the needs and satisfactions that serve the preservation of the Establishment are shared by the underlying population.” ― Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions which bind the consumers to the producers and, through the latter to the whole social system. The products indoctrinate and manipulate; they promote a false consciousness which is immune against its falsehood…Thus emerges a pattern of one-dimensional thought and behavior.” ― Herbert Marcuse

“Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production.” ― Herbert Marcuse

“By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For “totalitarian” is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a non-terroristic economic-technical coordination which operates through the manipulation of needs by vested interests.”
― Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence.” ― Herbert Marcuse