“The hierarchy of values is indispensable. It's the first order of a harmonious social life. Let's say we grow in only one direction, only technologically, and we don't develop a whole human personality. In that way we could all be destroyed, as is quite possible right now. We have the development of technology and experimental projects for various types of weapons—and what next? Those one-dimensional skills and abilities may override the whole sphere of human values. We are condemned to development—universal and multidimensional, development through personal values.”

—Kazimierz Dąbrowski, from a 1979 interview