Love Is The Absence Of Anxiety.

Psychic Disturbances Are The Consequences Of The Sexual Chaos Of Society. For Thousands Of Years, This Chaos Has Had The Function Of Psychically Subjecting Man To The Prevailing Conditions Of Existence, Of Internalizing The External Mechanization Of Life. It Has Served To Bring About The Psychic Anchoring Of A Mechanized And Authoritarian Civilization By Making Man Incapable Of Functioning Independently.

You Don't Believe That Your Friend Could Ever Do Anything Great. You Despise Yourself In Secret, Even – No, Especially – When You Stand On Your Dignity; And Since You Despise Yourself, You Are Unable To Respect Your Friend. You Can't Bring Yourself To Believe That Anyone You Have Sat At Table With, Or Shared A House With, Is Capable Of Great Achievement. That Is Why All Great Men Have Been Solitary. It Is Hard To Think In Your Company, Little Man. One Can Only Think 'about' You, Or 'for Your Benefit', Not 'with' You, For You Stifle All Big, Generous Ideas.

Your Liberators Tell You That That Your Suppressors Are Wilhelm, Nikolaus, Pope Gregory The Twenty Eighth, Morgan, Krupp Or Ford. And Your "liberators" Are Called Mussolini, Napoleon, Hitler And Stalin. I Tell You: "only You Yourself Can Be Your Liberator!"

We Shall No Longer Hang On To The Tails Of Public Opinion Or To A Non- Existent Authority On Matters Utterly Unknown And Strange. We Shall Gradually Become Experts Ourselves In The Mastery Of The Knowledge Of The Future.

Revolutionary Practice In Any Field Of Human Existence Develops By Itself If One Comprehends The Contradictions In Every New Process; It Consists In Siding With Those Forces Which Act In The Direction Of Progressive Development.