“Men often have grievances against prominent and powerful persons. Historically, the grievances of the powerless against the powerful have furnished the steam for the engines of revolutions. My point is that in many of the famous medicolegal cases involving the issue of insanity, persons of relatively low social rank openly attacked their superiors. Perhaps their grievances were real and justified, and were vented on the contemporary social symbols of authority, the King and the Queen. Whether or not these grievances justified homicide is not our problem here. I merely wish to suggest that the issue of insanity may have been raised in these trials to obscure the social problems which the crimes intended to dramatize.”

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

“Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.”

“A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.”

“No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.”

“Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.”

“He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.”

“The proverb warns that "You should not bite that hand that feeds you." But maybe you should if it prevents you from feeding yourself.”

“The self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.”

“If you talk to God you are praying if God talks to you you have schizophrenia.”

“If you talk to God you are praying if God talks to you you have schizophrenia.”