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"By equality, one once understood equality in the very same sense in which the Bible speaks of equality: that we are all equal, inasmuch as we are created in the image of God."
"If we begin to say, "Well, maybe we can cope better with the Russians if we also transform ourselves into a managed society, if we, as somebody put it the other day, train our soldiers to be like the Turks, who have fought so bravely in Korea, if we are willing to change our whole way of life for the sake of so-called "survival," then I think we do exactly that which threatens our survival."
"The individual citizen has very little possibility of having any influence - of making his opinion felt in the decision-making."
"Jewish legend says that the world rests on 36 just men: only thirty six, but their moral strength is immense."
"For [Karl] Marx it is socialist society which realizes "concretely" the religious principles of equality, brotherly love, and freedom."
"We have, in the same way, relegated our own responsibility in what happens to our country to the specialists, who are supposed to take care of it, and the individual citizen does not feel that he can judge, and even that he should judge, and take any responsibility. I think there are quite a number of recent developments which show that."
"Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream."
"The root of the word education is e-ducere, literally, to lead forth, or to bring out something which is potentially present."
"I think the Russians might do away with the terror in twenty or thirty or years, when they are richer, and when they don't need these repressive methods so much."
"Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into a sadist or a destroyer."
"Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes; knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth; it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely."
"Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him."
"We forget that, although freedom of speech constitutes an important victory in the battle against old restraints, modern man is in a position where much of what "he" thinks and says are the things that everybody else thinks and says; that he has not acquired the ability to think originally - that is, for himself - which alone gives meaning to his claim that nobody can interfere with the expression of his thoughts."
"I would consider a socialism a mixture of the minimum of centralization necessary for a modern industrial state, and a maximum of decentralization."
"Women are equal because they are not different any more."
"The mother's and father's attitudes toward the child correspond to the child's own needs.... Mother has the function of making himsecure in life, father has the function of teaching him, guiding him to cope with those problems with which the particular society the child has been born into confronts him."
"Psychoanalysis , which interprets the human being as a socialized being, and the psychic apparatus as essentially developed and determined through the relationship of the individual to society, must consider it a duty to participate in the investigation of sociological problems to the extent the human being or his/her psyche plays any part at all."
"People seek a new orientation, a new philosophy, one which is centered on the priorities of life-physically and spiritually-and not on the priorities of death."
"The most important factor for the development of the individual is the structure and the values of the society into which he was born."
"Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings."