Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process breaks down, because people cease to be able to govern themselves; they demand to be managed.

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organised to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.

It is really an alienation to believe that learning is the result of teaching.

The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

To hell with the future. It's a man-eating idol.