Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which... remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as "right" in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as "brute force."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot enquire into whether the abolition of private pro...perty is expedient or advantageous. But I am able to recognize that the psychological premises on which the system is based are an untenable illusion. In abolishing private property we deprive the human love of aggression of one of its instruments ... but we have in no way altered the differences in power and influence which are misused by aggressiveness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cann...ot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful than any other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to rec...eive the manifestations of their aggression.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow- me...n, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »