"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers"

Thomas Ruggles Pychon Jr

Gravity's Rainbow 1973

"Sanity is madness put to good use"

George Santayana

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue center light pop and everyone goes "Awww!"

Jack Kerouac

American novelist, writer, poet and artist

1922 - 1969

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace"

Jimi Hendrix

1942 - 1970

"

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men"

Lord Acton

1834-1902

"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts"

George Brown Burgin

British Author

1856 - 1944

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself"

Harry Fierstein

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, It is the only thing that ever has.”

Margaret Mead

"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

"Is life worth living? It all depends on the Liver"

William James

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.”

Marianne Williamson

“A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"It is time to speak your truth

Create your community

Be good to each other

And do not look outside yourself for the leader."

Hopi Indian advice

"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."

Rita Mae Brown

"I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out"

John Glover

"Big brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceutials are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs"

Phyllis Schlafly

"What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance"

Theodore Roethke

"Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open"

Thomas Dewar

"Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death"

R D Laing

"Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship."

Harry S Truman 1884-1972

Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959

"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong"

Leo Rosten

"

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them."

Dr. Martin Henry Fischer

"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes"

Mark Twain

"Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it"

William Pitt the Younger

1759 - 1806

"[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind."

Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821

"I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time."

H.L. Mencken 1880-1956

"The fact is that God guides man to be

his own doctor, his own teacher,

so that he does not need to depend

on anyone else.

And once you can do that, once

you can be independent of everybody

and stand on your own feet,

it will lead you to a feeling of

confidence in yourself"

Bapak Muhammad Subuh 1901-1987

"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you"

Carl Gustav Jung

Swiss psychiatrist, influential thinker

1875 - 1961

"Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane"

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

"madness is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings"

Socrates

"All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name"

Ugo Betti

"Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world"

R D Lang

Scottish psychiatrist

"You medical people will have more lives to answer for in the other world than even we generals".

Napolean Bonaparte 1769-1821

"Most therapists teach you to be depressed about your life. There isn't anything in psychotherapy that cheers you up. Most of it is bullshit. If someone has been in therapy for years and they are still not happy why don't they ask for a refund"

Richard Bandler

"the government and media are causing stigma and discrimination, they incite the public into believing that those who have been bruised by life are dangerous"

miranda morland

kill bill volume 2-the draft mental health bill petition

"In a mad world only the mad are sane."

Akira Kurosawa 1910-1998

"The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation."

William Hutton

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act".

George Orwell

“A child born today in the United Kingdom stands a ten times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than to a university ... This can be taken as an indication that we are driving our children mad more effectively than we are genuinely educating them. Perhaps it is our way of educating them that is driving them mad.”

R. D. Laing 1927-1989

Scottish psychiatrist noted for his alternative approach to the treatment of schizophrenia

"The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization"

Karen Horney

"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."

Voltaire 1694-1778

"Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside."

Albert Schweitzer 1875-1965

"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule"

Friedrich Nietzsche

1844 - 1900

"The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later"

Harvey Fierstein

"A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses."

Hippocrates 460 BC - 377 BC

Regimen in Health

"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments."

William H. Borah

"Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten  finer?"

George Price

"A Hospital is no place to be sick."

Samuel Goldwyn 1882-1974

"Don't go to a psychotherapist. If you go and talk about the time you were first depressed and connect it to the time you were angry and then see how that made you confused, you'll end up impotent"

Richard Bandler

"Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence."

Henrik Tikkanen

"I don't really trust a sane person."

Lyle Alzado 1914-1992

"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."

Oscar Levant 1906-1972

"Insanity: Viewing an overflowing sink and going for the mop instead of the tap".

Phillip day

"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."

H.L. Mencken

1880-1956

"One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."

Alice James

"Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians."

Chester Bowles 1901-1986

Carl Jung

Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and is renowned as the founder of analytical psychology. Although he was a theoretical psychologist and practicing clinician, much of his life’s work was spent exploring other areas, including Eastern and Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology, sociology, as well as literature and the arts. His most notable ideas include the concept of psychological archetypes, the collective unconscious and synchronicity. Jung is the source of some of my all time favorite quotes. I admire how he mixes logical thinking along with a grain of spirituality and the subconscious realms. Here is a list of my favorite quotes from Carl Jung:

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotions.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

The word “happiness” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Carl Jung

Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and is renowned as the founder of analytical psychology. Although he was a theoretical psychologist and practicing clinician, much of his life’s work was spent exploring other areas, including Eastern and Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology, sociology, as well as literature and the arts. His most notable ideas include the concept of psychological archetypes, the collective unconscious and synchronicity. Jung is the source of some of my all time favorite quotes. I admire how he mixes logical thinking along with a grain of spirituality and the subconscious realms. Here is a list of my favorite quotes from Carl Jung:

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotions.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

The word “happiness” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.