Robert M. Lindner
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.Collection: Children
Schools vast factories for the manufacture of robots.Collection: School
It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.Collection: Elements
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.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Compassion
It is in solitude that the works of hand, heart and mind are always conceived, and in solitude that individuality must be affirmed.Collection: Heart
We should not wonder at the success of communism, for so much of its success is rather that of religion.Collection: Wonder
Non-conformism is the major, perhaps the only, sin of our time.Collection: Individualism
What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.Collection: Unhappiness
As a dimension of man, rebellion actually defines him.Collection: Men
Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.Collection: Humility
Adjustment, that synonym for conformity that comes more easily to the modern tongue, is the theme of our swan song, the piper's tune to which we dance on the brink of the abyss, the siren's melody that destroys our senses and paralyzes our wills.Collection: Song
How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error.Collection: Persistence