I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
I always think that people who are - maybe 'insane' is too strong a word, but there's more of a spiritual connection. Sometimes they can see below the surface.
I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.
I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world.
Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like.
They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.