Establish State Normal

Famous quotes containing the words establish, state and/or normal:

“I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

“... liberal intellectuals ... tend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has a monopoly of power; hoping that those in positions of authority may prove to be enlightened men, wielding power justly, they are natural, if cautious, allies of the “establishment.””
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

“Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.”
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)