Asylums Quote by Dorothea Dix

[To a woman who claimed she'd rather be dead than unconfined and unfashionable:] My dear, if you continue to lace as tightly as you…

— Dorothea Dix

Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.

— Dorothea Dix

I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion

— Dorothea Dix

While we diminish the stimulant of fear, we must increase to prisoners the incitements of hope, in proportion as we extinguish the terrors of…

— Dorothea Dix

Man is not made better by being degraded.

— Dorothea Dix

The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

— Dorothea Dix

I think even lying on my bed I can still do something.

— Dorothea Dix

Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.

— Dorothea Dix

Society, during the last hundred years, has been alternately perplexed and encouraged, respecting the two great questions -how shall the criminal and pauper be…

— Dorothea Dix

But the truth is the highest consideration.

— Dorothea Dix

I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens;…

— Dorothea Dix

A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and…

— Dorothea Dix