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- Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
- Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human…
- Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He…
- The pleasure in complete domination over another person (or other animate creature) is the very essence of the sadistic drive. Another way of formulating the…
- Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the highest profit, considering…
- Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with - the love of…
- The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome…
- Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to…
- 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…
- Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with…
- I believe that love is the main key to open the doors to the "growth" of man. Love and union with someone or something outside…
- I believe that the experience of love is the most human and humanizing act that it is given to man to enjoy and that it,…
- Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself.
- Socialism is the abolition of human self-alienation, the return of man as a real human being.
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle