We have, in the same way, relegated our own responsibility in what happens to our country to the specialists, who are supposed to take care of it, and the individual citizen does not feel that he can judge, and even that he should judge, and take any responsibility. I think there are quite a number of recent developments which show that.

Organized religion is in substance a mystification, a means of hiding the wickedness of the social system. If the Christian principles of love, equality, and freedom were really practiced instead of only preached, there would be no need for a special institution(the church) to take care of those principles.

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

There are many who feel consciously hopeful and unconsciously hopeless, and there are few for whom it is the other way around.

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.

Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.