When an individual is awake, almost all he does and says is inspired by the model of behavior that the society imposes,even without his being aware of it.

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.

We are concerned with things. We are concerned with success. We are concerned with money. We are concerned with instrumentalities.

If we love our fellow humans, we cannot limit our insight and our love only to others as individuals...We have to be political people, I would even say passionately involved political people, each of us in the way that best suits our own temperaments, our working lives, and our own capabilities.

I am a socialist. However, I have to add that what I understand by socialism is exactly the opposite of what many people, or most people, today mean by socialism.

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