Ronald David Laing Browse All Authors Top 10 quotes by Ronald David 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. Ronald David Laing We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die. Ronald David Laing Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life. Ronald David Laing Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years. Ronald David Laing Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. Ronald David 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. Ronald David 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. Ronald David Laing There is no such condition as schizophrenia, but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. Ronald David 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. Ronald David Laing We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world -- mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt. Ronald David Laing
