The destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it

Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and give the reassurance albeit false, that the whole mixture is real and true. The thinking processes attempt to organize this whole cesspool of illusions according to the laws of plausibility. This level of consciousness is supposed to reflect reality; it is the map we use for organizing our life.

Society must be organized in such a way that mans social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with it.

If you take a salesman, who sells a useless commodity, he feels like a fraud.

Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience.

Loving becomes, and the ability to love, becomes one of the most important things in life.

If we begin to say, "Well, maybe we can cope better with the Russians if we also transform ourselves into a managed society, if we, as somebody put it the other day, train our soldiers to be like the Turks, who have fought so bravely in Korea, if we are willing to change our whole way of life for the sake of so-called "survival," then I think we do exactly that which threatens our survival.