Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.

A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot inquire into whether the abolition of private property is expedient or advantageous. But I am able to recognize that the psychological premisses on which the system is based are an untenable illusion. In abolishing private property we deprive the human love of aggression of one of its instruments... but we have in no way altered the differences in power and influence which are misused by aggressiveness.

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

History is just new people making old mistakes.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

All that matters is love and work.