To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge.

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

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

Politics and religious leaders [are hindered] by their egotism.

The root of the word education is e-ducere, literally, to lead forth, or to bring out something which is potentially present.

Organized religion is in substance a mystification, a means of hiding the wickedness of the social system. If the Christian principles of love, equality, and freedom were really practiced instead of only preached, there would be no need for a special institution(the church) to take care of those principles.