To be ignorant or unconvinced of one's own needs has become the unforgivable anti-social act. The good citizen is one who imputes standardized needs to himself with such conviction that he drowns out any desire for alternatives, much less the renunciation of need.

Leadership does not depend on being right.

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

Health is not an objective condition which can be understood by the methods of natural science alone. It is rather a condition related to the mental attitude by which the individual has to value what is essential for his life.

Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.

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

Societies in which most people depend for most of their goods and services on the personal whim, kindness, or skill of another are called underdeveloped, while those in which living has been transformed into a process of ordering from an all-encompassing store catalogue are called advanced.