John Money Quotes & Sayings

Well it's a drastic procedure by your standards and mine, but for the people who are living in desperation perhaps the best way to understand it is that it seems no more drastic to them than circumcision. — John Money

Neither tolerance nor intolerance is grounded in science and reason, but they are themselves acts of faith grounded in social custom and the politics of expediency and power — John Money

It costs $30,000 to $50,000 per year to send someone to jail. You don't have to pay so much to send someone to school at Johns Hopkins. — John Money

If I were to see the case of a boy aged ten or eleven who's intensely erotically attracted toward a man in his twenties or thirties, if the relationship is totally mutual, and the bonding is genuinely totally mutual, then I would not call it pathological in any way. — John Money

It makes it very exciting don't you think to live in an age of, of discovery of human personality this way? — John Money

Compulsory sports for those who by temperament or physique do not qualify may be a disaster ... The repercussions may be extreme ... and they may be very long-lasting, even throughout adulthood. — John Money