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.

Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Love is not a spontaneous feeling, a thing that you fall into, but is something that requires thought, knowledge, care, giving, and respect. And it is something that is rare and difficult to find in capitalism, which commodifies human activity.

The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.

We are all equal in the sense that no man must mean - must be - the means for the purposes of another man; but each individual is an end in itself.

When the theory of evolution destroyed the picture of God as the supreme Creator, confidence in God as the all-powerful Father of man fell with it, although many were able to combine a belief in God with the acceptance of the Darwinian theory.

The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.