The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis.

In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick and the dying to hospitals. But hospitals serve the convenience of staff not patients: we cannot be properly ill in a hospital, nor die in one decently; we can do so only among those who love and value us. The result is the institutionalized dehumanization of the ill, characteristic of our age.

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

The FDA calls certain substances "controlled." But there are no "controlled substances," there are only controlled citizens.

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.