Today, we talk a lot about equality, but I think what most people mean by it is sameness - that everybody is the same - and they are afraid if they are not the same, they are not equal.

The state of sleep is a state of freedom in which man is not occupied with the manipulation of the outside world.

If you do not smile, you are judged lacking in a 'pleasing personality' - and you need to have a pleasing personality if you want to sell your services, whether as a waitress, a salesman, or a physician.

Happiness today, I think, is for most people the satisfaction of the eternal suckling: to drink in more this, that, or the other.

According to me [Sigmund ] Freud did not notice that the dream expresses the inner experiences in a symbolic form,resembling in that, poetry or other art forms.

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

Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter.