The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology.

The customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy.

Technical Utopias-flying, for example-have been achieved by the new science of nature.The human utopia...a united new humankind living in solidarity and peace, free from economic determination and from war and class struggle-can be achieved, provided we spend the same energy, intelligence, and enthusiasm on the realization of the human Utopia as we have spent on the realization of our technical Utopias.

What is for me socialism is exactly the opposite of a bureaucratically-managed culture.

True love is like a pair of socks: you gotta have two and they've gotta match.

Respect is not fear and awe; it...[is]the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality. Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me.

Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.