Escape from Freedom Quotes

Man, the more he gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more he becomes an “individual,” has no choice but to unite himself with the world in the spontaneity of love and productive work or else to seek a kind of security by such ties with the world as destroy his freedom and the integrity of his individual self.

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed and biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.

Men are born equal but they are also born different.

Man’s biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

Freedom is the fundamental condition for any growth.

Destructiveness is the outcome of unlived life.