The Perversion of Normality Quotes

“Undermining parental authority was the prerequisite for establishing the child as a sovereign individual, and hence as a consumer.”
― Kerry R. Bolton, The Perversion of Normality: From the Marquis de Sade to Cyborgs

“The sexualisation of children has proceeded from commercial interests that aim to integrate children at the earliest possible age into the consumer process, analogous to the way that women were integrated into the production process in the name of ‘freedom’. Bernays brought women the ‘freedom’ to consume tobacco behind the banner of ‘emancipation’.”
― Kerry R. Bolton, The Perversion of Normality: From the Marquis de Sade to Cyborgs

“Where Fromm saw the ‘primary ties’ as the continuation of an infantile dependency of the individual, Jung saw in the infant the presence of all the instincts and experiences of his ancestors over millennia, from where potentialities arise. This is not something from which to be dissociated, but to be integrated into the total personality; the process of individuation in the Jungian sense. Here is the difference between Jung’s individuation, and that of the Critical Theorists. The first means integration, the second means fracture. The meaning of Critical Theory is to facture: the individual and society in the name of an unbound freedom.”
― Kerry R. Bolton, The Perversion of Normality: From the Marquis de Sade to Cyborgs

“No constitution arises from deliberation. The rights of the people are never written, except as simple restatements of previous, unwritten rights. … Although written laws are merely the declarations of pre-existing laws, it is far from true that all these laws can be written. … The more of it one puts into writing, the weaker the institution becomes. … No nation can give itself liberty if it is not already free, for human influence extends only as far as existing rights have developed. … There never existed a free nation which did not have seeds of liberty as old as itself in its natural constitution. … Nor has any nation ever successfully attempted to develop, by its fundamental written laws, rights other than those which existed in its natural constitution. … One of the greatest errors of a century which professed them all was to believe that a political constitution could be created and written a priori, whereas reason and experience unite in proving that a constitution is a divine work and that precisely the most fundamental and essentially constitutional of a nation’s laws could not possibly be written. … Promises, contracts, and oaths are mere words. It is as easy to break this trifling bond as to make it. Without the doctrine of a Divine Legislator, all moral obligation becomes illusory. Power on one side, weakness on the other: this constitutes all the bonds of human societies. The codifiers of Roman law unpretentiously inserted a remarkable fragment of Greek jurisprudence in the first chapter of their collection. Among the laws which govern us, it says, some are written and others are not. Nothing could be more simple and yet more profound. …428”
― Kerry R. Bolton, The Perversion of Normality: From the Marquis de Sade to Cyborgs

“Fromm explicitly calls these primary ties ‘organic’, and that is an essential factor in rightist analysis: the foundations of traditional society, and the traditional view of history are organic; it is the organic that the Right seeks to restore. The ‘progressive’ aims to obliterate the organic community (Gemeinschaft in sociological terms), and fracture the primary ties that bond that community.”
― Kerry R. Bolton, The Perversion of Normality: From the Marquis de Sade to Cyborgs

“Although we may not know it, we have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of social control.”
― Kerry R. Bolton, The Perversion of Normality: From the Marquis de Sade to Cyborgs

“The loss of collective national memory is an important element in social engineering, which was why the genuine national heroes and founders of nations must today be vilified and then consigned to the memory hole in the name of ‘progress’.”
― Kerry R. Bolton, The Perversion of Normality: From the Marquis de Sade to Cyborgs

“The focus on questions of child-rearing maintains the focus on the family as the incubator of ‘authoritarianism’. The implication is that in order to expunge this danger from society it is best that children are inculcated with the dominant ideology; i.e., liberalism or ‘political correctness’, and that contrary ideas, including especially those of parents, are repressed as ‘thought crimes’.”
― Kerry R. Bolton, The Perversion of Normality: From the Marquis de Sade to Cyborgs

“The Authoritarian Personality formulates a theory about family that defines healthy and unhealthy familial relationships on the basis of the degree of submission to a father figure.”
― Kerry R. Bolton, The Perversion of Normality: From the Marquis de Sade to Cyborgs

“The Frankfurt School theory towards the family is summarised by Jay Martin in a semi-official history of the institution: ‘Even a partial breakdown of parental authority in the family might tend to increase the readiness of a coming generation to accept social change’.”
― Kerry R. Bolton, The Perversion of Normality: From the Marquis de Sade to Cyborgs

“After speaking with Pavlov, Lenin proclaimed his desire to re-educate the Russian people as an animal trainer would. In October 1919, Lenin allegedly paid a secret visit to Pavlov’s laboratory to find out how the work on conditional reflexes might help communism to control human behaviour. The ultimate aim of communism was to improve human beings and to transform human nature. Although Pavlov was critical of communism, he was patronized by the Bolshevik regime. Lenin spoke of Pavlov’s work as hugely significant for the revolution and Trotsky saw the production of a new, improved version of humankind as the great task of communism, using current humanity as raw material, or as a semi-manufactured product.”
― Kerry R. Bolton, The Perversion of Normality: From the Marquis de Sade to Cyborgs

“The conditioned reflex provides a powerful tool for social engineering. Sooner or later, research animals will be replaced by humans, and scientists will become the social engineers of the human psyche. Pavlovian psychology … is a style of research driven by interest. It is interested in developing effective, evidence-based tools for manipulation and exploitation. Ideally, society as a whole becomes structured as Pavlov’s laboratory (i.e. Pavlov’s laboratory as a small-scale, anticipatory model of an ideal state, a window into the communist future).165”
― Kerry R. Bolton, The Perversion of Normality: From the Marquis de Sade to Cyborgs

“Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed and my own specified world to bring them up in and I’ll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select — doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.163 Here we have the same type of dogma used to justify the mass terror of the Jacobin state and then the Bolshevik state, and the ‘soft dictatorship’ of contemporary Western societies, where states are guided by the principles of Behviourism in assuming that all social problems can be eliminated by social engineering.”
― Kerry R. Bolton, The Perversion of Normality: From the Marquis de Sade to Cyborgs

“Watson’s dictum that there are no inherited human traits remains a pervasive dogma that separates the social sciences from genetics.”
― Kerry R. Bolton, The Perversion of Normality: From the Marquis de Sade to Cyborgs

“Rather it is plutocracy that has been manipulating the Left in promoting an integrated economy by the use of Leftist doctrines that break down barriers to such an economy.”
― Kerry R. Bolton, The Perversion of Normality: From the Marquis de Sade to Cyborgs

“But the fact is that Soros-backed projects share basic common attributes…. They all work to weaken the ability of national and local authorities in Western democracies to uphold the laws and values of their nations and communities. … In other words, their goal is to subvert Western democracies and make it impossible for governments to maintain order or for societies to retain their unique identities and values. … The notion at the heart of the push for the legalization of unfettered immigration is that states should not be able to protect their national identities. … Parallel to these efforts are others geared toward rejecting the right of Western democracies to uphold long-held social norms. Soros-supported groups, for instance, stand behind the push not only for gay marriage but for unisex public bathrooms. … the peoples of the West need to recognize the common foundations of all Soros’s actions. They need to realize as well that the only response to these premeditated campaigns of subversion is for the people of the West to stand up for their national rights and their individual right to security. They must stand with the national institutions that guarantee that security, in accordance with the rule of the law, and uphold and defend their national values and traditions.96”
― Kerry R. Bolton, The Perversion of Normality: From the Marquis de Sade to Cyborgs