Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations..

Only idiots and infants need things. The language of needs is the native tongue of socialists, therapists, and paternalists of all sorts and is addre….

Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect and you kill his….

Mysticism joins and unites; reason divides and separates. People crave belonging more than understanding. Hence the prominent role of mysticism, and ….

Prostitution is said to be the world's oldest profession. It is, indeed, a model of all professional work: the worker relinquishes control over himse….

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

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

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 mor….

We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

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

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus stead….

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence..

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

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

Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment..

Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situation to transform in….

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia..

The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself..

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 ….

Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years..

Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity; they loathe liberty….