Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living.

Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise concerned with helping persons with their personal problems? Psychiatry could be one or the other, but it cannot--despite the pretensions and protestations of psichiatrists--be both.

The battle for the world is the battle for definitions.

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

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

It taught me, at an early age, that being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society regards the majority’s falsehood as truth, could be fatal.