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

In fifty years activity as an analyst I have witnessed again and again that a dreamer after having met a personage regarded by all as influential and good,saw him again in a dream with a different face.

Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are standardized and can be easily influenced and anticipated. It needs men who feel free and independent, not subject to any authority or principle or conscience-- yet willing to be commanded, to do what is expected of them, to fit into the social machine without friction; who can be guided without force, led without leaders, prompted without aim-- except the one to make good, to be on the move, to function, to go ahead.

If the handbag could think, it would have a terrific inferiority feeling, because, not having been bought, it would feel useless.

Mother's love always peace as it not to be acquired nor deserved.

What is for me socialism is exactly the opposite of a bureaucratically-managed culture.

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.