The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.

Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude.

The language of science—and especially of a science of man—is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years.

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

The less a person knows about the workings of the social institutions in his society, the more he must trust those who wield power in it; and the more he trusts those who wield such power, the more vulnerable he makes himself to becoming their victim.