R.D. Laing

"The greatest tragedy is a culture in which authority is assumed and not questioned."

"Language itself is a kind of dementia."

"We respect our friends when they are successful; we understand their failures."

"Our task is not to produce conformity, but to educate whole human beings."

"We are born to love, yet we are taught to fear."

"Peace comes when we stop struggling against what is."

"The mind is a universe; some of us are living in very small corners of it."

"To read the theory of Freud one must be determined not to understand it."

"We break the rules of the game and find ourselves on the outside."

"Beauty is the manifestation of secret natural laws."

"The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to be true ourselves, that instant we have already ceased to be ourselves."

"We are all murderers and prostitutes, but we prefer to repress it."

"The sick individual finds himself at home in a sick society."

"Our alienation goes to the roots. The realization of this is the essential springboard to any change."

"We live in a fantasy of our own making."

"Children are not born passive; we make them passive."

"The demand to give up illusions about the condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions."

"We are alive, yet we are dead in so many ways."

"If we can understand each other's madness, we can understand each other."

"Society is a conspiracy against the truth."

"What we are experiencing is the breakdown of the human personality."

"The source of all despair is the gap between who we are and who we think we should be."

"Suffering is not a disease; it is a symptom of living."

"We must dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."

"The condition of being human is a continuous state of becoming."

"Our deepest fear is that we do not matter."

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."

"We are taught to forget how to feel and to think instead."

"The moment a person forms a theory, the facts arrange themselves to support it."

"We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love."