Ancient Quote by Paul Fleischman

“the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad.”

— Paul Fleischman

“I saw what medication did to people; it made them zombies. I could learn to control my anger, but I refused to live my…

— Bry Ann

“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

“The symptoms of madness can often be altered with medication, but there's no therapy for evil.”

— Jonathan Kellerman

...had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an…

— Anne Fortier

“To look back before 1800 is to enter another world, one where the number of institutions for the mad was a tiny fraction of…

— Mike Jay

The present blitz about drugs - I think it looks very much like how we treated insane people 100 years ago -- throw them…

— Gene Roddenberry

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

It was the first time that I came face to face with madness and feared it and was fascinated by it.

— Edna O'Brien

“Bad chemicals and bad ideas were the Yin and Yang of madness.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think the only remotely interesting drug was acid. I had a slightly peculiar attitude towards it I think. Just about everything about hippydom…

— Jonathan Meades

In the 1960s, I was convinced that the world was extremely mentally ill.

— Donovan