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

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

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.

The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic - in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea - known to medical science is work.