Friday, 13 November 2009

Great Quote to give the Better-Than-You-Brigade



“We are all murderers and prostitutes..."
R. D. Laing

If anyone looks down upon you from their perceived lofty heights, spouting what a low-down tramp you are, just say "We are all murderers and prostitutes". No need for the rest of the quotation above from that genius psychiatrist/humanist R. D. Laing. There's a phrase which people use who don't like anything innovative; it eludes me at the moment, but that phrase can be used for how Laing came along and upset the psychiatric applecart. If it wasn't for the occasional genius such as him pottering along and putting his million dollars in (as opposed to two penn'oth), we'd still be burning witches or going round madhouses to watch the insane for amusement. Hobbes was right, methinks and fears, that "...the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short". Reminds me of the Jeremy Kyle Show...

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