Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses t...o regard, as mentally unwell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a normal person the motor and sensory nervous systems act as the windows of the individual personality.... [ellipsis in origina...l] The broken, many-stained and pictorial windows through which the light is struggling under disadvantages to harmonize itself with the physical world at large are found in three classes of persons--the mentally deficient, the morally deficient, and the insane. In these, the light is there, but the images, as in a broken cathedral window, are more or less shattered and confused.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Yuppies are not defectors from revolt, they are a new race, assured, amnestied, exculpated, moving with ease in the world of p...erformance, mentally indifferent to any objective other than that of change and advertising.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the c...ourse involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let's face it, we became ingrown, clannish, and retarded. Cut off from the mainstream of humanity, we came to believe that pink is... "flesh-color", that mayonnaise is a nutrient, and that Barry Manilow is a musician.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the heroine of a romance was to traverse through countries where the castle of giants rise to her view, through gloomy forests ...amongst the dens of savage beasts [where] she is in danger of being torn and devoured [or] retarded in her flight by puzzling mazes, the reader's fears will be alarmed for her safety.... But the puzzling mazes into which we shall throw our heroine are the perverse interpretations made upon her words; the lions, tigers, and giants from which we endeavor to rescue her are the spiteful and malicious tongues of her enemies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellec...tual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them--as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the larger view the major forces of the depression now lie outside of the United States, and our recuperation has been retarded... by the unwarranted degree of fear and apprehension created by these outside forces.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of course, the comic figure in all this is the long-suffering Mr. Wilkes. Mr. Wilkes--who can't be mentally faithful to his wife a...nd won't be unfaithful to her technically.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »