We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter t... -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 , Psychologist
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R. D. Laing Quotes to Explore

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain....
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....
We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one take...
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that....
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 d...
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....
The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation....
Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent....

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I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy....
These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries....
Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine partnership...
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of ...
Australia has an increasingly multicultural society....
It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tells us that suffering is wrong. If it's our own sufferi...
I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day....
Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere....
There are many people making a difference. I mean, Dr. King never held an office. Gandhi never held an office. There are people who are archetypes in ...
The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society....