R.D. Laing

"Language is not the only medium of communication, but it is the one we most rely on."

"We are murderers. We slaughter ourselves each day in countless small ways."

"The experience of being alone is as fundamental as eating or drinking."

"Facts are human statements verified by human beings."

"Genuine freedom is the absence of necessity."

"The crisis of our time is fundamentally a crisis of authenticity."

"We are living in an age of meaninglessness."

"Every human relationship is a psychological event."

"Suffering and pain are not the diseases themselves but the effects of the diseases."

"The mind has depths and dimensions no physicist has ever successfully measured."

"Those who are not in relationships have no reflection of themselves."

"True charity consists in wanting others to be happy."

"The system is rigged to make you conform or be eliminated."

"Our task is not to cure ourselves of insanity but to recover our humanity."

"Society has constructed normality through the elimination of experience."

"Violence is the work of those who are afraid of their own potential."

"Love without understanding is tyranny."

"We are not what we seem to be."

"The capacity to be alone is the capacity to be free."

"We need to separate what is human from what is social."

"Your parents did not set out to traumatize you, they were simply doing what they were taught."

"The modern child is not educated to become fully human."

"Perception is not passive but active and constructive."

"We cannot go further than we are willing to feel."

"The person who can be alone with themselves has great power."

"Society requires that we mutilate ourselves in order to be socially acceptable."

"Hope lies in the possibility of experiencing different modes of being."

"The void within us can only be filled by authentic connection."

"We are all more or less mad. The question is the degree."

"Acceptance of one's whole self is the beginning of healing."