Mental disorder Quote by Jon Ronson

“South. In southern courtrooms and medical journals, slaves' misbehavior was often attributed to an inward disposition of character, which meant that there was something…

— Walter Johnson

In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical"…

— Susan Sontag

Madness in Civilization is a brilliant, provocative, and hugely entertaining history of the treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill. Packed with bizarre details…

— Dirk Wittenborn

“How to undo slavery's injury to the mental faculties–so many freed men continued to be enslaved by the horrors they'd endured.”

— Colson Whitehead

“The disease which racked his body was a sweetheart compared to the more obscure one that possessed his sick mind.”

— Irvine Welsh

“Unlike physical chains of slavery, mental chains are very hard to remove because they are invincible. Making an attempt for removal will always create…

— DAVID OKAFOR

“This was the age of the industrial revolution, science was becoming the new religion and it was therefore natural that large numbers of the…

— Neil Evans

“Barbee had wondered about insanity, sometimes with a brooding dread - for his own father, whom he scarcely remembered, had died in the forbidding…

— Jack Williamson

“He had been diagnosed as suffering from atypical schizophrenia. Lord, how he hated that awful-sounding label. It conjured up visions of some deranged maniac…

— Etienne de L'Amour

“It is devilish to suffer from a pain that is all but nameless. Blessed are they who are stricken only with classifiable diseases! Blessed…

— George Orwell

“He blamed psychopaths for the brutal excesses of capitalism itself, that the system at its cruelest was a manifestation of a few people’s anomalous…

— Jon Ronson

“Free yourself from mental slavery. Break those invisible chains your masters put on your spiritual neck to control you”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana