Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.

The depersonalizati on of diagnosis and therapy has changed malpractice from an ethical into a technical problem.

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.

The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.

We have failed...through our lack of responsible awareness...and thus added to suffering around the world. All of us are cripples-some physically, some mentally, some emotionally. We must, therefore, strive cooperatively to create a new world. There is no time left for destruction, for hatred, for anger. We must build, in hope and joy and celebration.

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

If you want to change society then you must tell an alternative story.