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·  A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
 
·  Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself;  he must act in spite of it,
   and then it will gradually yield to him.
 
·  All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.
 
·  All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
 
·  All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
 
·  An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
 
·  Annual drug deaths:    tobacco: 395,000,   alcohol: 125,000,   'legal' drugs: 38,000,
   illegal drug overdoses: 5,200,   marijuana: 0.     Considering government subsidies
   of tobacco, just what is our government protecting us from in the drug war ?
 
·  Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
 
·  Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
 
·  Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
 
·  Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.
 
·  During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
 
·  Each person designs his own life,  freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs,
   and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.
 
·  Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing
   can be taught.
 
·  Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
 
·  Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
 
·  For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
 
·  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.
 
·  Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
 
·  From a sociological point of view, child psychiatry is a secular institution for regulating domestic relations.
   From my point of view it is child abuse.
 
·  God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
 
·  Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
 
·  Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
 
·  History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon   !
 
·  Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also
   remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
 
·  I couldn't maintain my integrity in a profession  ( clinical psychology & psychotherapy )  that is almost
   devoid of integrity.
 
·  I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
 
·  I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.'
   And God granted it.
 
·  I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
 
·  I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
 
·  If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
 
·  If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.
 
·  If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.
 
·  If you don't know what it  'is';   you'd better damned well learn what it  'isn't' !!!
 
·  If you start to take Vienna   -  take Vienna !!!
 
·  I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with
   sticks and stones.
 
·  'Impossibility' is simply the limit of comprehension.
 
·  Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
 
·  Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables
   a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
 
·  It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
 
·  It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough,
   in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.
 
·  It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
 
·  It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
 
·  It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.
 
·  Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed
   are daily made the agents of injustice.
 
·  Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
 
·  Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
 
·  Life's not what you make it;   it's what you make of it.
 
·  Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give -
   which is everything.
 
·  Mad,  adjective:   Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
 
·  Madness is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings.
 
·  Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal
   as enslavement and existential death.
 
·  Man is condemned to be free;  because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
 
·  Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
 
·  Men join clubs for the same reason they used to carry them,  ..........security.
 
·  Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
 
·  Mental health therapists:     homeless maids ???????
 
·  Most people, sometime in their lives, stumble across truth. Most jump up, brush themselves off, and
 
   hurry on about their business, as if nothing had happened.
 
·  Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
 
·  Never complain and never explain.
 
·  Never  interrupt  your  enemy  when  he  is  making  a  mistake.
 
·  No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles,
   we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for  stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
 
·  No good deed goes unpunished.
 
·  Of all tyrannies,  a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
 
·  One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become.  One lives one's death,
   one dies one's life.
 
·  One of the first duties of the physician is to EDUCATE the masses not to take medicine.
 
·  One only waits in vain for psychologists to state the limits of their knowledge.
 
·  People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.
 
·  People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding.
 
·  Perception is real even when it is not reality.
 
·  Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.
 
·  Propaganda is to democracy what violence is to totalitarianism.
 
·  Psychiatrists are like taxi drivers:  if you're goin' fuckin' crazy .......by God Almighty THEY insist on driving
   you there;    - "AND"  collecting the fare.
 
·  Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected the American society within the
   last fifty years.
 
·  Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
 
·  Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
 
·  Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
 
·  Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
 
·  Silence  IS  Complicity  IS  Betrayal.
 
·  Some recognize the experience  --- a few experience the recognition.
 
·  The experience and behaviour that gets labelled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents
   in order to live in an unlivable situation.
 
·  The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
 
·  The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
 
·  The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view
   of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
 
·  The finding of God is the coming to one's own self.
 
·  The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue;  courage is only the second virtue.
 
·  The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
 
·  The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance
   but the illusion of knowledge.
 
·  The more laws, the less justice.
 
·  The Nazis said they had a Jewish problem. We say we have a drug abuse problem. Actually, 'Jewish problem'
   was the name the Germans gave to their persecution of the Jews; 'drug abuse problem' is the name we give
   to our persecution of people who use certain drugs.
 
·  The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.
 
·  The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
 
·  The opposite of love, I have found, is not hate, but indifference.
 
·  The proverb warns that “You should not bite the hand that feeds you”. But maybe you should, if it prevents
   you from feeding yourself.
 
·  The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice.
   And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change;
   until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
 
·  The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
 
·  The ultimate goal of power,  is to keep it.
 
·  The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
 
·  The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
 
·  There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.
 
·  There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
 
·  There is more than ONE injustice,  but i fear only ONE cause.
 
·  There is no such "condition" as "schizophrenia," but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
 
·  There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs, they are weak men. Only strong men are cured,
   and they cure themselves.
 
·  There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
 
·  They are playing a game.  They are playing at not playing a game.  If I show them I see they are, I shall
   break the rules and they will punish me.   I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.
 
·  To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know
   anything you must know all.
 
·  To commit violent and unjust acts, it is not enough for a government to have the will or even the power;
   the habits, ideas, and passions of the time MUST lend themselves to their committal.
 
·  To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile
   state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.
 
·  Truth suppress'd, whether by courts or crooks, will find an avenue to be told.
 
·  Two wrongs don't make a right;   but three lefts do
 
·  Unless we change direction,  we are likely to end up where we are headed !
 
·  We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
 
·  We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence
   and freedom of thought.
 
·  We live in a world of problems which can no longer be solved by the level of thinking which created them.
 
·  We do not possess imagination enough to sense what we are missing.
 
·  What does not destroy me, makes me strong.
 
·  When the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself.
 
·  Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
 
·  You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
  
 
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