New oppressors will have been readying themselves secretly in the undertow long before the tidal wave really got going. Experience and intelligence warn us that man's progress in freedom will be piecemeal, slow and undramatic. Revolution may be necessary for taking a society out of an intractable stretch of quagmire but it does not confer freedom, and may indeed hinder it. . . . Reform may be a dirty word then but it begins to look more and more like the most promising route to success in the real world. . . .
Society is an extension of the individual.
The most we can hope to do with a problematic individual psyche is to reform it. No responsible psychoanalyst would aim to do more, for to do more, to overthrow the psyche itself, would be to unlease insanity. We can only hope to rearrange some details in the periphery of the human personality. . . . It has to be the same with society.