« In contemporary capitalist society, the meaning of equality has changed. Equality refers to an equality of automatons; men who have lost their individuality. Today, equality means "similarity" rather than "singularity." »

« The discovery of unconscious processes and the dynamic concept of character was definitive because it allows to reach the very roots of human behavior; it is disturbing because no one can hide behind their good intentions; it is dangerous because, if everyone were to know what he or she may know about himself and others, society would be shaken to its foundations. »

« Love is an active concern for the life and growth of what we love. Where this active concern is lacking, there is no love. This dimension of love has been beautifully described in Jonah's book. God tells Jonah to go to Nineveh and warn his inhabitants that they will be punished if they do not renounce their perverse conduct. But Jonah, fearing that the people of Nineveh would repent and that God would forgive him, evaded his mission. He is a man who possesses the greatest sense of order and law, but without love. However, in his attempt to escape, he finds himself in the belly of a whale, a symbol of the state of isolation and imprisonment to which led his lack of love and solidarity. God saves him, and Jonah goes to Nineveh. He preaches to the inhabitants as God had prescribed, and now this very happens that he feared. The men of Nineveh repent of their sins, correct their conduct, and God forgives them and decides not to destroy the city. Jonah saw a deep spite and a great irritation, he wanted "justice" to be done, not mercy. Finally, he draws some comfort from the shade of a tree that God had grown for him in order to protect him from the sun. But when God makes the tree dry out, depressed Jonas complains angrily. God replies: "You take pity on a ricin for which you have not worked, that you have not grown, that one night has been born and that a night has seen perish. And I, I, would not spare Nineveh, this flourishing city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot distinguish their right hand from their left hand, and also many cattle? ». God's answer to Jonah is to be understood symbolically. God explains to Jonah that the essence of love is to "take pain" for something and "grow" something, that love and work are inseparable. We love what we struggle for and we struggle for what we love. »