"Its basic structure is of possessiveness – the husband possesses the wife and they both possess the children – and the moment you possess a human being, you have taken away his dignity, his freedom, his very humanity. You have taken away all that is beautiful and you have given him only handcuffs, perhaps made of goldbeautiful cages in place of his wings. Those golden cages cannot give him the sky and the freedom of the sky.

"So the first thing is: a model commune will not have families. The implication is clear that it will not have marriages.

"Love, for the first time, should be given the respect that is its due for centuries. Love should be the only law between two human beings if they decide to live together; only joy should be their binding force. The moment love disappears. And remember, like everything real, love also changes. Only unreal things, plastic things, remain permanent. Marriage is permanent, but it gains permanence by killing love.

"It is on the grave of love that marriage makes its house. Naturally, it brings only agony, anguish, suffering, slavery – and a total destruction of man's spirituality.

"A model commune will be a communion, a gathering of free spirits. Children should belong to the commune, not to the parents. Parents have done enough harm. They cannot be allowed anymore to corrupt their children, although their intentions are all good. But what to do with their good intentions? The results are all ugly.

"Parents teach their children to be competitive, and competition brings jealousy. They teach their children to become somebody in the world, to leave a name behind themselves. That makes life a struggle, not a rejoicing but a continuous fight – so destructive that it takes away all your joy, all your juice, all your flowers. It leaves behind only skeletons fighting for power, for money , for position. Life becomes a war-field.

"The whole blame goes to the parents. They have lived as ambitious beings; they have destroyed themselves. Now they go on giving their heritage to their children – their unfulfilled desires, their incomplete ambitions. In this way diseases pass on from one generation to another."