You can actively flee, then, and you can actively stay put.

The American feels too rich in his opportunities for free expression that he often no longer knows what he is free from. Neither does he know where he is not free; he does not recognize his native autocrats when he sees them.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

Will, therefore, is the unbroken determination to exercise free choice as well as self-restraint, in spite of the unavoidable experience of shame and doubt in infancy.

When established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, special crises compel men to wage holy wars, by the cruelest means, against those who seem to question or threaten their unsafe ideological bases.

In America nature is autocratic, saying, "I am not arguing, I am telling you.

Do not mistake a child for his symptom.