In fact, the mental hygiene code, modeled originally upon the criminal code, binds the afflicted party under every method of legal... restraint. The afflicted is in a sense one accused, hospitalization constituting a type of arrest, accompanied by police power and physical force both in seizure itself and in detention, where escape is prevented by locks and bars and prohibited by statute as well. Having committed no crime, one can--while drugged and unable even to comprehend the proceedings, without even counsel of one's own choosing--within a routine five-minute hearing lose one's liberty for an indeterminate period, even for life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs--unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and ...felony criminal defendents who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I long to hear that you have declared an independancy [sic]--and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be nec...essary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Laidies [sic] we are determined to foment a Rebelion [sic], and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It would be ... better to be judged by one's superiors than by one's peers. ...In a trial before his superiors, any criminal would... stand a chance of justice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I feel more charity for a Mormon who has been taught from his birth that it is not only his right but his duty to God to enter int...o plural marriages, and that the man who has the greatest number of wives stands highest in God's favor, than I do for the man who has been taught from his cradle that the unpardonable sin is the desecration of womanhood; whose religious training and the moral code of civilization in which he is reared make it a crime to violate the Seventh Commandment and the established law of monogamy. Yet, judging from the testimony we see all about us--our ... lying-in and foundling hospitals and our fallen womanhood--the married or single man who lives a pure life is rare.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten ...to to the core.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all... other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a cla...ssification, and that all classifications are oppressive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »