Quotes from Robert M. Lindner

As a dimension of man, rebellion actually defines him.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error.

We should not wonder at the success of communism, for so much of its success is rather that of religion.

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

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.

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.

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