Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Modern man is assailed on every side and almost without interruption by noise - of the radio, of television, of headlines, of advertising and of the cinema - of which the greatest part, far from enlightening the mind, blunts and stultifies it.

In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother must not only tolerate, she must wish and support the child's separation.

We've wanted to produce more in the 19th century and the 20th century in order to give man the possibility for more dignified human life; but actually what has happened is that production and consumption have become means - have ceased to be means and have become ends, and we are production crazy and consumption crazy.

The most important things we talk about on Sundays are things to which we pay very little attention.

Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity.