From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence called love, as its father and mother and their parents and their parents before them, have been. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potential.

When family relations are no longer harmonious, we have filial children and devoted parents.

We are born into a world where alienation awaits us. We are potentially men, but are in an alienated state, and this state is not simply a natural system. Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

We live equally out of our bodies and out of our minds.

Few books today are forgivable.

We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.