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

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.

It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.

The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology.

The third error leading to the assumption that there is nothing to be learned about love lies in the confusion between the initial experience of ‘falling’ in love, and the permanent state of being in love, or as we might better say, of ‘standing’ in love.

The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.

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.