The fact is that the culture does not have only positive effects on our intellectual and moral functions but also negative effects.

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.

We have faith in the potentialities of others, of ourselves, and of mankind because, and only to the degree to which, we have experienced the growth of our own potentialities, the reality of growth in ourselves, the strength of our own power of reason and love.

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

The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.

We are concerned with things. We are concerned with success. We are concerned with money. We are concerned with instrumentalities.

I want to mention that Marx shares something, if you don't mind the comparison, with the Old Testament: many people talk about him, but nobody has read him.