E. Fuller Torrey famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Mental health courts exist because the system has failed. If these people were being treated, they wouldn't end up with misdemeanor charges or felony charges against them in the first place. The very existence of mental health courts is really an indication of the system's failure.
-- E. Fuller Torrey

#People #Firsts #Mental Health
Over the years it [the National Committee for Mental Hygiene] has championed for the promotion of 'mental health' despite the fact that nobody knows what it is or how to do it.
-- E. Fuller Torrey

#Years #Hygiene #Facts
The very term ['mental disease'] is nonsensical, a semantic mistake. The two words cannot go together except metaphorically; you can no more have a mental 'disease' than you can have a purple idea or a wise space". Similarly, there can no more be a "mental illness" than there can be a "moral illness." The words "mental" and "illness" do not go together logically. Mental "illness" does not exist, and neither does mental "health." These terms indicate only approval or disapproval of some aspect of a person's mentality (thinking, emotions, or behavior).
-- E. Fuller Torrey

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Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.
The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.
Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.

E. Fuller Torrey famous quotes

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