We substitute, or we rather hide, this fear of real intimacy by a superficial kind of friendliness, which is quite nice, but nevertheless, very shallow.

If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either.

All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual.

The customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy.

I think the Russians might do away with the terror in twenty or thirty or years, when they are richer, and when they don't need these repressive methods so much.

I think we got off the track, as many societies do, who follow successfully one aim, and yet are not capable of seeing at what point the pursuit of this aim prevents them from following a more total aim. That is to say, they get into a blind alley.

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.