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

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

Equality today means ‘sameness’, rather than ‘oneness’.

Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the connection that a child will be right only if the adults put into him what is desirable and suppress what seems to be undesirable.

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.

I see socialism in the direction, of management, of enterprise, by all who work in the enterprise.

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.