Schools vast factories for the manufacture of robots.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

Only by being permitted to experience the consequences of his actions will the child acquire a sense of responsibility; and within the limits marked by the demands of his safety this must be done.

In the crowd, herd, or gang, it is a mass-mind that operates-which is to say, a mind without subtlety, a mind without compassion, a mind, finally, uncivilized.

Mass Man, the universal psychopath, is born when the individual ego is weakened to the point at which it loses separate identity and is forced, for security, to merge with the mass.

Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.

It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

As a dimension of man, rebellion actually defines him.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

It is in solitude that the works of hand, heart and mind are always conceived, and in solitude that individuality must be affirmed.

Non-conformism is the major, perhaps the only, sin of our time.

Anyone who wishes to destroy humanity's past, desires to destroy its future.

Grasp the opportunity to make each day exceptional.

Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work.

I don't believe there is any justifiable reason for killing any animal unless perhaps if it's killing you! That would be negotiable.

I stopped dropping acid for a while after my daughter was born. It's hard to keep an eye on the kid while you're hallucinating.

Gentlemen, if my love for you equaled my ignorance of everything concerning you, it would indeed be unbounded.

I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer. I think the most important thing is that you have to really choose the players carefully.

Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.

You shouldn't shoot at every opportunity that passes by.

When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.