Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another. – Herbert Marcuse
The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it. – Herbert Marcuse
The people recognize themselves in their commodities they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment. – Herbert Marcuse
If you dont die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young. – Anne Lamott