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.

The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.

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.

All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual.

Happiness today, I think, is for most people the satisfaction of the eternal suckling: to drink in more this, that, or the other.