R. D. Laing

"Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. "

"To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning. "

"We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. "