The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis.

Modern man, if he dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store in the world, showing new things and gadgets, and himself having plenty of money with which to buy them.

The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die.

I would say democracy once meant an organizational society and a state, in which the individual citizen is - feels - responsible, and acts responsibly, and participates in decision-making.

I would define myself as a Marxian, and that means of course also as a humanist.

I need you because I love you.

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.