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Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.
Human Nature and Social Theory (1969)
The revolutionary and critical thinker is in a certain way always outside of his society while of course he is at the same time also in it.
Human Nature and Social Theory (1969)
I would say the less realistic basis for a vision of the uncrippled man and of a free society there is, the more is Utopia the only legitimate form of expressing hope.
Human Nature and Social Theory (1969)
They are historical, but the product of rational imagination, rooted in an experience of what man is capable of and in a clear insight into the transitory character of previous and existing society.
Human Nature and Social Theory (1969)
One social structure will be conducive to cooperation and solidarity another social structure to competition, suspiciousness, avarice; another to child-like receptiveness, another to destructive aggressiveness.
Human Nature and Social Theory (1969)
The most important misunderstanding seems to me to lie in a confusion between the human necessities which I consider part of human nature, and the human necessities as they appear as drives, needs, passions, etc., in any given historical period.
Human Nature and Social Theory (1969)