Many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem of mental health in a society is only that of the number of 'unadjusted' individuals, and not of a possible unadjustment of the culture itself.

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Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built

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To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.

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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

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Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as an investment which must bring him the maximum profit obtainable under existing market conditions.

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Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

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The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.

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The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

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If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

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That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

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