R. D. Laing quotes (3):

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.

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.