"[Sigmund ] Freud assumes that every dream represents the satisfaction of adesire and in the last analysis, of a sexual desire that has its roots in infancy."
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"I have a tremendous faith in the possibilities of man, which have shown in his past, and I believe if we avoid war, we shall be able to revive our real vision of life, but that we must see it, and therefore, that we must be critical to where we are."
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"I am a socialist. However, I have to add that what I understand by socialism is exactly the opposite of what many people, or most people, today mean by socialism."
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"The narcissistic, the domineering, the possessive woman can succeed in being a "loving" mother as long as the child is small. Only the really loving woman, the woman who is happier in giving than in taking, who is firmly rooted in her own existence, can be a loving mother when the child is in the process of separation."
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"If you do not smile, you are judged lacking in a 'pleasing personality' - and you need to have a pleasing personality if you want to sell your services, whether as a waitress, a salesman, or a physician."
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"I feel worried, deeply worried, only about one thing - the possibility that we fall... that we cannot avoid an atomic war."
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"I think we got off the track, as many societies do, who follow successfully one aim, and yet are not capable of seeing at what point the pursuit of this aim prevents them from following a more total aim. That is to say, they get into a blind alley."
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"In our enthusiasm to dominate nature and to produce more material good - goods - we have transformed means into ends."
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"Man today being concerned with production and consumption as ends in themselves, has very little engergy time to devote himself to the true religious experience."
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"Faith is not a weak form of belief or knowledge; it is not faith in this or that; faith is the conviction about the not yet proven, the knowledge of the real possibility, the awareness of pregnancy."
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"We forget that, although each of the liberties which have been won must be defended with utmost vigour, the problem of freedom is not only a quantitative one, but a qualitative one; that we not only have to preserve and increase the traditional freedom, but that we have to gain a new kind of freedom, one which enables us to realize our own individual self; to have faith in this self and in life."
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"Mother's love always peace as it not to be acquired nor deserved."
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"The ownership of industry by the state - that is not socialism."
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"If the Russians claim they are Socialist, this is just, I would say, a lie. They have no socialism at all. They have what I would call a state capitalism."
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"What is for me socialism is exactly the opposite of a bureaucratically-managed culture."
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"In fact, there are very important writings of Marx which are not even translated into English."
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"I think [Karl] Marx, Pope John XXIII or Rosa Luxemburg [had achieved the mode of existence].But it would be useless to look at a list of illustrious names."
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"We can express ideas without being afraid of being killed or imprisoned."
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"This Marxian sentence, repeated to the point of boredom, is misinterpreted. In reality [Karl] Marx was a "religious" man."
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"I see socialism in the direction, of management, of enterprise, by all who work in the enterprise."
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