The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is radically estranged from the structure of being.

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice.

There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons.

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

We are born into a world where alienation awaits us. We are potentially men, but are in an alienated state, and this state is not simply a natural system. Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.