It is only in alert silence that truth can be.

And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are.

We should awaken feelings of respect for each other. In other words, awaken the desire to kill selfishness.

Happy is the man who is nothing.

Real freedom is not something to be acquired, it is the outcome of intelligence.

Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.

We want the children to conform; we want to control their minds, to shape their conduct, their way of living, so that they will fit into the pattern of society, That is what every parent wants, is it not? And that is exactly what is happening, whether it be in America or in Europe, in Russia or in India. The pattern may vary slightly, but they all want the child to conform.