14 Quotes by Robert M. Lindner

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.

It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.

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.

Non-conformism is the major, perhaps the only, sin of our time.

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.

As a dimension of man, rebellion actually defines him.

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.