Communists Are Frustrated Capitalists.

It Would Be Difficult To Exaggerate The Degree To Which We Are Influenced By Those We Influence.

To Become Different From What We Are, We Must Have Some Awareness Of What We Are.

We Find It Hard To Apply The Knowledge Of Ourselves To Our Judgment Of Others. The Fact That We Are Never Of One Kind, That We Never Love Without Reservations And Never Hate With All Our Being Cannot Prevent Us From Seeing Others As Wholly Black Or White.

The Chief Burden Of The Frustrated Is The Consciousness Of A Blemished, Ineffectual Self, And Their Chief Desire Is To Slough Off The Unwanted Self And Begin A New Life. They Try To Realize This Desire Either By Finding A New Identity Or By Blurring And Camouflaging Their Individual Distinctness; And Both These Ends Are Reached By Imitation.

The Individual Who Has To Justify His Existence By His Own Efforts Is In Eternal Bondage To Himself.