
“The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.”
Second Series, p. 186
Life Is Worth Living (1951–1957)
“The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.”
Second Series, p. 186
Life Is Worth Living (1951–1957)
“Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.”
Source: I Am the Messenger
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), unplaced by chapter
Context: Ellen, only last night, asked, 'Daddy, when will we be rich?' But I did not say to her what I know: 'We will be rich soon, and you who handle poverty badly will handle riches equally badly.' And that is true. In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
“Holding onto something that's gone only makes a sickness inside.”
Inside Movies interview 24 Nov 2010 http://insidemovies.ew.com/2010/11/24/alan-menken-tangled/.