David Lloyd George Quotes

The Emperor Francis is already ill. The other leaders [of the nation] are all mad and belong in the lunatic asylum.

England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.

The Madness of President George

New York Governor William Sulzer is absolutely crazy, and if they don't put him out they will have to establish a regency.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Sometimes, patients with serious mental illness, just as with other serious medical illnesses, require hospitalization. In the absence of available public or private hospital beds, there are few options.

I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like.

I've been insane from a very early age.

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.

John Paul Jones was probably clinically committable, but that doesn’t take anything away fro him as a hero.

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

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

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.

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.

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.

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.

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.

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

We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

I think that every young person is a little mentally ill, you know? If we're not totally shutting down, we're all a little bit mentally ill in our twenties and maybe into our early thirties.

Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did.