We are concerned with things. We are concerned with success. We are concerned with money. We are concerned with instrumentalities.

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants to be an outsider, or indeed an outcast; in order to avoid this risk everybody adapts to the majority, who have in common only their mutual antagonism.

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

To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.

The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is.

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.