Book: A healthy society

Man as a unit can be determined not only from the point of view of anatomy and physiology for this species is characterized by common psychological laws that govern their mental and emotional activity, as well as the desire for a satisfactory resolution of the problems of human existence.

The motive for the murders, perhaps to a lesser extent, evidence of disease than the causes of suicide.

We have reduced the number of working hours by almost half compared to the times of a century ago. About this time, as we do today, our ancestors dared to dream. And what? We don't know how to use this newly acquired free time: we try to kill it and rejoice, the end of the day.

To destroy life - it means also to go beyond it.

Least of all suicides are committed in the poorest countries.

Modern society consists of "atoms" (if we use the Greek equivalent of the word "individual") is the smallest, separated from each other particles held together by selfish interests and the need to use each other.

I want only to emphasize here the principle is laid down: the act of consumption should be a concrete human act, which involves our senses, physical needs, our aesthetic taste - in other words, to which we ourselves as individual human beings with their feelings, emotions, opinions; the act of consumption must be meaningful creative human experience. In our culture it is present only to a small extent. Our consumption is essentially the satisfaction of artificially heated imagination, fantastic performance, alienated from our true nature specific.

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

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead; in the twentieth, the problem is that dead people.