Lin Yutang Quotes

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.

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.

Treating mental health illness is compassionate and saves money.

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.

Our job is to incarcerate offenders and not hospitalize sick people…. We are reluctant to advocate better mental help facilities within our jail as it would only attract more people in need of mental health services

The incidence of mental illness has not changed by one iota in the last 100 years.

The state must concern itself with all institutions for those with damaged minds.

Psychiatry: An Instrument of Death

The jails and prisons are the new insane asylums. That’s what we are.

We have funny ideas about how people in mental institutions act. We think of drooling and people going booga-booga and climbing the wall. These are exceptional cases.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

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

I have a very intimate knowledge of the world of the mentally ill and of life inside of, especially, public hospitals and the way people are treated in there and the way that they try to survive in there.

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

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

I'm nuts and I know it. But so long as I make 'em laugh, they ain't going to lock me up.

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

I would say being in that institution - that psyche ward, or whatever it was. That was really creepy because it was a real place from like the early 1900s.

This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.

You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'

I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

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.

Psychiatry causes so much death.

Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me.