George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Insanity is a very high art form. If everyone was insane, I wouldn't be here!

Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We're going crazy.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.

Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not.

If we weren't all crazy, we'd just go insane.

I proceed, gentlemen, briefly to call your attention to the present state of insane persons within the Commonwealth, in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens—chained naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.

It's been taboo for so long to admit you had a mental health problem.

Depression has existed as long as mankind itself, and certainly well before psychiatry, antidepressant medication, or the nation of America itself came into being.

We need to be open about mental illness, and demand the mental health services we need.

If you don't support people with mental illnesses they are more likely to develop a physical illness too and that is challenging.

We need, ultimately, to be able to view mental health with the same clear-headedness we show when talking about physical health.

You don't have to be a creative maverick to have a troubled mind. You just have to be human. There is no 'us' and 'them.' No one is one hundred per cent healthy, physically or mentally.

Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill.

Mentally ill people come from all belief systems.

One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.

I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world's largest association of mental-illness workers, and I am all for more funding for mental-health care and research - but not in the vain hope that it will curb violence.

Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.

The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

Because 'Call The Midwife' is a gentle drama, not a documentary, it's not appropriate to portray Sister Monica Joan's condition in all its brutal reality.

The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly.

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.