We cannot go beyond the consumer society unless we first understand that obligatory public schools inevitably reproduce such a society, no matter what is taught in them.

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organised to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal health.

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

We can only live changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create.

The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.

Schools teach the need to be taught.

Jesus was an anarchist savior. That's what the Gospels tell us.

For every establishment there is a stir-up virtue

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

It's made me realize that imperfect is perfectly comfortable to me. Whether it's a city or my apartment, I feel most at home when things are somewhat flawed.

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.

What seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.

Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile.

There were many hours when I never quite know how I'd gotten there or why I stayed.

You can't take a crash course in serenity.