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

We've wanted to produce more in the 19th century and the 20th century in order to give man the possibility for more dignified human life; but actually what has happened is that production and consumption have become means - have ceased to be means and have become ends, and we are production crazy and consumption crazy.

That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

I have learnt to appreciate the clarity of English language.

Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments.

Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?..Is there not also, perhaps, besides an innate desire for freedom, an instinctive wish for submission?

When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.