Quotes of R. D. Laing - somelinesforyou

“ Life is a sexually transmitted disease. ”

- R. D. Laing

“ We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. ”

- R. D. Laing

“ Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent. ”

- R. D. Laing

“ The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn. ”

- R. D. Laing

“ Schizophrenic behaviour is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation. ”

- R. D. Laing

“ The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation. ”

- R. D. Laing

“ The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn. ”

- R. D. Laing

“ Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death. ”

- R. D. Laing

“ The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn. ”

- R. D. Laing

“ From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities… ”

- R. D. Laing

“ Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death. ”

- R. D. Laing

“ Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. ”

- R. D. Laing

“ Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. ”

- R. D. Laing

“ Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death. ”

- R. D. Laing

“ In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen. ”

- R. D. Laing

“ We are all murderers and prostitutes — no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be. ”

- R. D. Laing

“ If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know I know, I think I don't know. ”

- R. D. Laing

“ The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn. ”

- R. D. Laing

“ If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know I know, I think I don't know. ”

- R. D. Laing

“ The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation. ”

- R. D. Laing

“ In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen. ”

- R. D. Laing

“ If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know I know, I think I don't know. ”

- R. D. Laing

“ Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2. ”

- R. D. Laing

“ We are all murderers and prostitutes — no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be. ”

- R. D. Laing

“ We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself. ”

- R. D. Laing

“ Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that. ”

- R. D. Laing

“ Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. ”

- R. D. Laing

“ If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know I know, I think I don't know. ”

- R. D. Laing

“ We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy. ”

- R. D. Laing

“ We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy. ”

- R. D. Laing
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