Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.

Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations.

In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too few real atrocities to feed the hatred against the enemy.

We may know ourselves, and yet even with all the efforts we make, we do not know ourselves. We know our fellowman, and yet we do not know him, because we are not a thing, and our fellowman is not a thing. The further we reach into the depths of our being, on someone else's being, the more the goal of knowledge eludes us.

The customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy.

What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture.

Jewish legend says that the world rests on 36 just men: only thirty six, but their moral strength is immense.