It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled.

Many social practices essential to the welfare of the species involve the control of one person by another, and no one can suppress them who has any concern for human achievements

The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid the inner devastations. His technique was to practice the opposite emotion... a man may not get his freedom or possessions back, but he's less miserable. It's a difficult lesson.

I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.

To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.

I don't believe in God, so I'm not afraid of dying.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.