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" What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal. "

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

" Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. "

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" There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love. "

" Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. "

" Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market. "

" 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. "

" In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. "

" Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either. "

" The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent. "

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

" Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world. "

" Authority is not a quality one person 'has', in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him. "

" The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. "

" There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue. "

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