The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression. (Herbert Marcuse)

The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression.

Herbert Marcuse

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