Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as an investment which must bring him the maximum profit obtainable under existing market conditions.

I think American man unconsciously hates his work very often, because he feels trapped by it... imprisoned by it... because he feels that he is spending most of his energy for something which has no meaning in itself.

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves.

The individual citizen has very little possibility of having any influence - of making his opinion felt in the decision-making.

The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology.

We are all equal in the sense that no man must mean - must be - the means for the purposes of another man; but each individual is an end in itself.

We forget that, although freedom of speech constitutes an important victory in the battle against old restraints, modern man is in a position where much of what "he" thinks and says are the things that everybody else thinks and says; that he has not acquired the ability to think originally - that is, for himself - which alone gives meaning to his claim that nobody can interfere with the expression of his thoughts.