Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the highest profit, considering his position and the situation on the personality market. He is alienated from himself, from his fellow men and from nature. His main aim is profitable exchange of his skills, knowledge, and of himself, his "personality package" with others who are equally intent on a fair and profitable exchange. Life has no goal except the one to move, no principle except the one of fair exchange, no satisfaction except the one to consume.p97.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

In fact, there are very important writings of Marx which are not even translated into English.

I think the Russians might do away with the terror in twenty or thirty or years, when they are richer, and when they don't need these repressive methods so much.

Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings.

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

Man today being concerned with production and consumption as ends in themselves, has very little engergy time to devote himself to the true religious experience.