“How crazy craziness makes everyone, how irrationally afraid. The madness hidden in each of us, called to, identified, aroused like a lust. And against that the jaw sets. The more I fear my own insanity the more I must punish yours.” My OwnCrazyMadnessIllnessLustMental IllnessInsanitySanityCraziness Book:The Loony-bin Trip Source: The Loony-bin Trip
“Mystical state, madness, how it frightens people. How utterly crazy they become, remote, rude, peculiar, cruel, taunting, farouche as wild beasts who have smelled danger, the unthinkable.” PeopleStatesCrazyDangerMadnessIllnessMental IllnessBeastPeculiarRudeMysticalUnthinkableWild BeastsTaunting Book:The Loony-bin Trip Source: The Loony-bin Trip
“Let us stop being afraid. Of our own thoughts, our own minds. Of madness, our own or others'. Stop being afraid of the mind itself, its astonishing functions and fandangos, its complications and simplifications, the wonderful operation of its machinery--more wonderful because it is not machinery at all or predictable.” MindWonderfulFunctionMadnessOperationsMachineryAstonishingPredictableBeing AfraidComplicationSimplification Author:Kate Millett
“[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We behave. A fantastic and entire system of social control, by the threat of example as effective over the general population as detention centers in dictatorships, the image of the madhouse floats through every mind for the course of its lifetime.” KnowsMindEndsCoursesSocialStepsWatchesExampleMadnessMental HealthThreatLifetimePopulationFantasticBehaveJailDictatorshipFloatsDetentionMadhousesSocial Control Author:Kate Millett
