“We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. As Satan said, "Evil, be thou my good," so they say, "Darkness, be thou my light."”

—  Horace Mann

Source: Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1872), p. 184

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