People dream of making the virtuous powerful, so they can depend upon them. Since they cannot do that, people choose to make the powerful virtuous, glorifying in becoming victimized by them.

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

We have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of social control.

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.

Psychiatry does not commit human rights abuse. It is a human rights abuse.

Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a self-disciplined person can be obedient; and only such a person can be autonomous.