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

Mental illness, of course, is not literally a "thing" - or physical object - and hence it can "exist" only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist.

Work is pushing matter around. Politics is pushing people around.

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

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.

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.