Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time. ...Its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to a...ppoint a commission.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pagea...nt marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 »
"O.K., Marlowe," I said to myself, "you're a tough guy. You've been zapped twice, choked, beaten silly with a gun, shot in the arm... until you're as crazy as a couple of waltzing mice, now let's see you do something really tough, like putting your pants on."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »