#nsa

I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#asylum #cared #convinced #creatures #desire

I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#been #before #faintest #had #i

I put my clothing into the refrigerator and the foods into my wardrobe; am I in love? ↗

— Munia Khan

#insanity #love #food

I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#completely #could #how #i #insane

To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#because #believe #delusion #enter #essence

Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#companies #credit #high #including #insanely

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#different #doing #expecting #insanity #over

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#battle #found #i #indispensable #planning

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#amused #contempt #eyes #looking #looks

She became so important to them that they wondered how they had ever managed without her in the past. And the longer she stayed with them the more indispensable she became, so indispensable in fact that their one fear was that she might some day move on. ↗

— Michael Ende

#day #ever #fact #fear #had