We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

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

The Greeks distinguished between good and bad behavior, language that enhanced or diminished persons. Being intoxicated with scientism, we fail to recognize that the seemingly technical terms used to identify psychiatric illnesses and interventions are simply dyphemisms and euphemisms.

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

Like fast-food chains, child psychiatric inpatient units and the wholesale psychiatric drugging of children, in and out of hospitals, are recent...and remarkably popular products and practices.