Modern man is assailed on every side and almost without interruption by noise - of the radio, of television, of headlines, of advertising and of the cinema - of which the greatest part, far from enlightening the mind, blunts and stultifies it.

Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with - the love of life

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

Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He has constructed a complicated social machine to administer the technical machine he built. The more powerful and gigantic the forces are which he unleashes, the more powerless he feels himself as a human being. He is owned by his creations, and has lost ownership of himself.

What you might call the "symbol pushers" - that is to say, all of the people who deal with figures, with paper, with men, who manipulate - to use a better or nicer word - manipulate men and signs and words. All those today have not only to sell their service, but in the bargain, they have to sell their personality, more or less. There are exceptions.

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.