Kate Millett Quotes

I say, Watson,’ he whispered, ‘would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?’ ‘Not in the least,’ I answered in astonishment. ‘Ah, that’s lucky,’ he said, and not another word would he utter that night.

Only the demented would not have raised their hands in the great hall. They had exchanged fear for insanity".

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

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.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

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

The problem with mental illness, as opposed to physical illness, is that it involves wrong thinking or impaired insight. You're not thinking correctly.

Between incomprehensible and incoherent sits the madhouse. I am not in the madhouse.

Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.

Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity.

As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.

There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the protection of sanity. To walk into the wild wood of madness...

The tiny madman in his padded cell.

There is nothing wrong with me. These are really sick people, sick that you can see.

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.

And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.

In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.

Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.

Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.

The idea began to sink in, more than it ever had, that I might be crazy, in the traditional sense of the word. That I might be, forever and ever amen, a Crazy Person. That's what we'd suspected all along, what I'd been working so hard to disprove, what might be true. I preferred, by far, being dead.

[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.