[Our children] have been taken away from us by the psychiatric mental-health system. They've been taken away by the educational system, by the government, and by many different forces.

Going to a psychiatrist has become one of the most dangerous things a person can do.

The miracle drugs (neuroleptics) cause the worst plague of brain damage in medical history.

Love is the most ethically consistent experience, because selfishness and altruism no longer seem opposed or in conflict.

I think that one of the things that has happened is that psychiatry has become the religion of liberalism.

In reality, psychiatric diagnosing is a kind of spiritual profiling that can destroy lives and frequently does.

I come from a liberal tradition. I'm Jewish. My dad was a liberal. What I've found is that people who see themselves as thoughtful, caring, educated and informed have swallowed psychiatry as the way.

Hillary [Clinton] even said that, whether or not teenagers want treatment, they have to get it. So it's involuntary treatment.

Only in psychiatry is the existence of physical disease determined by APA presidential proclamations, by committee decisions, and even, by a vote of the members of APA, not to mention the courts.

Parents must refuse to cooperate with any psychological evaluation of their children in school.

I would like to write my next book about what happened to critical intelligence in America and how it's been undermined by these really shallow ideas about human life and nature.

Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!

The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.

The greatest crime ever created is caring and loving.

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

Inspiring others to do better work is the accomplishment of a leader.

Time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance.

I write for people who are good money managers and want to know how to be even better stewards over their money.

When I'm out there, I don't think about anything. I just grip it and rip it. I don't like to worry about technique.

Colour disturbs people. I am confident in black, not in light. This dark side of life is attractive to me forever and from the beginning. I am a lazy designer when it comes to colour.