Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened … - Erich Fromm

People are confused and unsure, they seek answers to guide them to joy, tranquillity, self-knowledge, salvation — but they also demand that it be easy to learn, that it require little or no effort, that results be quickly obtained.

Ethical principles stand above the existence of the nation and that by adhering to these principles an individual belongs to the community of all those who share, who have shared, and who will share this belief.

The source of irrational authority, on the other hand, is always power over people. This power can be physical or mental, it can be realistic or only relative in terms of the anxiety and helplessness of the person submitting to this authority. Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built. Criticism of the authority is not only required but forbidden. Rational authority is based upon the equality of both authority and subject, which differ only with respect to the degree of knowledge of skill in a praticular field. Irrational authority is by its very nature based on inequality, implying difference in value.