Herbert Marcuse's Quote - Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establis

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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

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