In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen.

Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.

School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught.

The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies.

Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process breaks down, because people cease to be able to govern themselves; they demand to be managed.

We have failed...through our lack of responsible awareness...and thus added to suffering around the world. All of us are cripples-some physically, some mentally, some emotionally. We must, therefore, strive cooperatively to create a new world. There is no time left for destruction, for hatred, for anger. We must build, in hope and joy and celebration.