The less a person knows about the workings of the social institutions in his society, the more he must trust those who wield power in it; and the more he trusts those who wield such power, the more vulnerable he makes himself to becoming their victim.

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

Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude.

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

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise concerned with helping persons with their personal problems? Psychiatry could be one or the other, but it cannot--despite the pretensions and protestations of psichiatrists--be both.

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