Domination has its own aesthetics, and democratic domination has its democratic aesthetics. - Herbert Marcuse

Society … can afford to grant more than before because its interests have become the innermost drives of its citizens.

[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order.

The philosopher … subjects experience to his critical judgment, and this contains a value judgment — namely, that freedom from toil is preferable to toil, and an intelligent life is preferable to a stupid life. It so happened that philosophy was born with these values. Scientific thought had to break this union of value judgment and analysis, for it became increasingly clear that the philosophic values did not guide the organisation of society.