“It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

As quoted in The Eden Express https://books.google.com/books?id=o89v2m2ybCEC&q=%22well-adjusted+to+a+profoundly+sick+society%22 (1975) by Mark Vonnegut, p. 208
1970s

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Indian spiritual philosopher 1895–1986

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