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

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

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.

Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish.

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.