Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is desirable. It only means that society does not have the moral right to interfere, by force, with a persons decision to commit this act. The result is a far-reaching infantilization and dehumanization of the suicidal person.

If someone does something we disapprove of, we regard him as bad if we believe we can deter him from persisting in his conduct, but we regard him as mad if we believe we cannot. In either case, the crucial issue is our control of the other: the more we lose control over him, and the more he assumes control over himself, the more, in case of conflict, we are likely to consider him mad rather than just bad.

In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.

The FDA calls certain substances "controlled." But there are no "controlled substances," there are only controlled citizens.

Child psychology and child psychiatry cannot be reformed. They must be abolished.

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis.