Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the connection that a child will be right only if the adults put into him what is desirable and suppress what seems to be undesirable.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Equality today means ‘sameness’, rather than ‘oneness’.

There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.

Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.

Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience.

Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity.