Authority is not a quality one person 'has,' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him. But there is a fundamental difference between a kind of superiority-inferiority relation which can be called rational authority and one which may be described as inhibiting, or irrational authority.

The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us …

In the development of both capitalism and communism, as we visualize them in the next fifty or a hundred years, the processes that encourage human alienation w…

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look round.

All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, no…

Those who fear men like laws.