In Nature We Find Not Only That

The Competition Between Human Beings Destroys With Cold And Diabolic Brutality... Under The Pressure Of This Competitive Fury We Have Not Only Forgotten What Is Useful To Humanity As A Whole, But Even That Which Is Good And Advantageous To The Individual. [...] One Asks, Which Is More Damaging To Modern Humanity: The Thirst For Money Or Consuming Haste... In Either Case, Fear Plays A Very Important Role: The Fear Of Being Overtaken By One's Competitors, The Fear Of Becoming Poor, The Fear Of Making Wrong Decisions Or The Fear Of Not Being Up To Snuff...

The Rushed Existence Into Which Industrialized, Commercialized Man Has Precipitated Himself Is Actually A Good Example Of An Inexpedient Development Caused Entirely By Competition Between Members Of The Same Species. Human Beings Of Today Are Attacked By So-called Manager Diseases, High Blood Pressure, Renal Atrophy, Gastric Ulcers, And Torturing Neuroses: They Succumb To Barbarism Because They Have No More Time For Cultural Interests.

All Scientific Knowledge To Which Man Owes His Role As Master Of The World Arose From Playful Activities.

The Appeal Of The Cat Lies In The Very Fact That She Has Formed No Close Bond With [man], That She Has The Uncompromising Independence Of A Tiger Or A Leopard While She Is Hunting In His Stables And Barns: That She Still Remains Mysterious And Remote When She Is Rubbing Herself Gently Against The Legs Of Her Mistress Or Purring Contentedly In Front Of The Fire.

I Believe-and Human Psychologists, Particularly Psychoanalysts Should Test This-that Present-day Civilized Man Suffers From Insufficient Discharge Of His Aggressive Drive. It Is More Than Probable That The Evil Effects Of The Human Aggressive Drives, Explained By Sigmund Freud As The Results Of A Special Death Wish, Simply Derive From The Fact That In Prehistoric Times Intra-specific Selection Bred Into Man A Measure Of Aggression Drive For Which In The Social Order Today He Finds No Adequate Outlet.