“ We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him. ”
- Marion Wright Edelman- Copy
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“ It's apparent that we can't proceed any further without a name for this institutionalized garrulousness, this psychological patter, this need to catalogue the ego's condition. Let's call it psychobabble, this spirit which now tyrannizes conversation in the seventies. ”
- Richard D. Rosen- Copy
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“ The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women. ”
- Ursula K. Le Guin- Copy
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“ We achieve "active" mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick and the dying to hospitals. But hospitals serve the convenience of staff not patients: we cannot be properly ill in a hospital, nor die in one decently; we can do so only among those who love and value us… ”
- Thomas Szasz- Copy
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