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

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

Psychiatry does not commit human rights abuse. It is a human rights abuse.

In the 60s people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal. In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

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.

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.

Child psychology and child psychiatry cannot be reformed. They must be abolished.