A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. - Thomas Szasz

Judges and prosecutors, lawyers and psychiatrists, all protest their passionate desire to know why a person accused of a crime did what he did. But their actions completely belie their words: their efforts are now directed toward letting everyone speak in court but the defendant himself -- especially if he is accused of a political or psychiatric crime.

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Like the devout theologian seeing the Devil lurking everywhere, Menninger, the devout Freudian, sees aggression.