We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with our European partners, to maintain the social character of Europe as much as possible.

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.