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.

All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.

Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.

I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality... I expect it to provide all further enlightenment.

[The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture.