 What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal. |
| There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue. |
| The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man. |
| Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. |
| Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. |
| Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' |
| In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. |
| Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. |
