5 Timothy Leary Quotes on Society

Timothy Leary quotes on society

10. Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities - the political, the religious, the educational authorities - who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing - forming in our minds - their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself.

19. Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

27. Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences.

30. Drugs Are the Religion of the People - The Only Hope is Dope

40. Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.