We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves.

What you might call the "symbol pushers" - that is to say, all of the people who deal with figures, with paper, with men, who manipulate - to use a better or nicer word - manipulate men and signs and words. All those today have not only to sell their service, but in the bargain, they have to sell their personality, more or less. There are exceptions.

There is no word in our language which has been so much misused and prostituted as the word love. It has been preached by those who were ready to condone every cruelty if it served their purpose; it has been used as a disguise under which to force people into sacrificing their own happiness, into submitting their whole self to those who profited from this surrender. [...] It has been made so empty that for many people love may mean no more than that two people have lived together for twenty years just without fighting more often than once a week.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience.

Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with - the love of life