All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.
Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a self-disciplined person can be obedient; and only such a person can be autonomous.
Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.
The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.
Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
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.