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"Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop under our hand, day in, day out."

"Almost all our contemporary movements showed in their early stages a hostile attitude toward the family, and did all they could to discredit and disrupt it. They did it by undermining the authority of the parents; by facilitating divorce.."

"Still, not one of our contemporary movements was so outspoken in its antagonism toward the family as was early Christianity" "When one of His disciples asked leave to go and bury his father, Jesus said to him: “Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.”"

"The Chinese sage Mo-Tzü who advocated brotherly love was rightly condemned by the Confucianists who cherished the family above all. They argued that the principle of universal love would dissolve the family and destroy society"

"The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing West offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. Even when the Westernized native attains personal success he is not happy. He feels naked and orphaned"

"we can never have enough of that which we really do not want, and that we run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves"

"The capacity to resist coercion stems partly from the individual’s identification with a group. The people who stood up best in the Nazi concentration camps were those who felt themselves members of a compact party (the Communists), of a church (priests and ministers)"

"The individualists, whatever their nationality, caved in" "Stalin succeeded in turning proud and brave men into cringing cowards by depriving them of any possibility of identification with the party they had served all their lives and with the Russian masses."