You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.

These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.

An enormous amount of art and literature is erotic in the sense that it stimulates vague sexual emotions, but it has no pornographic intention or effect because "it leaves everything to the imagination." The consumer has to invent his own images, and it is felt, I do not know with what justification, that there is no harm in this.

The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.

The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.

I know of no better name than Anarchism.