“The majority of men have not yet acquired the maturity to be independent, to be rational, to be objective.

They need myths and idols to endure the fact that man is all by himself, that there is no authority which gives meaning to life except man himself.

Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays lip service to the teachings of the great spiritual leaders of the human race, those of Buddha, the prophets, Socrates, Jesus, Mohammed — he has transformed these teachings into a jungle of superstition and idol-worship.”

— Erich Fromm