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.

In the development of both capitalism and communism, as we visualize them in the next fifty or a hundred years, the processes that encourage human alienation will continue.

Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness.

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.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.

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.