It is above all man's social position that decides whether he will sublimate his sadism as a butcher, surgeon, or policeman.

How, then,' I hear you ask, 'shall I attain my end, whether it be Christian love, socialism, or American democracy?' Your Christian love and your socialism and your American democracy are what you do each day, your manner of thinking each hour, of embracing your life companion and loving your child; they are your attitude of social responsibility towards your work, and your determination not to become like the crushers of life you so hate.

Sexually awakened women, affirmed and recognized as such, would mean the complete collapse of the authoritarian ideology

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.

And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express

Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin.