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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

— Ronald David Laing The Politics of Experience (1967)

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We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

The Politics of Experience (1967)

Psychology is the logos of experience. Psychology is the structure of the evidence, and hence psychology is the science of sciences.

The Politics of Experience (1967)

We can see other people's behaviour, but not their experience.

The Politics of Experience (1967)

There is no such "condition" as "schizophrenia," but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.

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I shall try to show that there is a comprehensible transition from the sane schizoid way of being-in-the-world to a psychotic way of being-in-the-world.

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