Quotes from Milton Rokeach

As soon as they leave, Leon says to me: I disagree, sir. There are people who aren't insane, and I'm one of them. People who generalize are mentally ill.

It's only when a man doesn't feel that he's a man that he has to be a god.

Deviation from the word of God is sentimentality and says 'you're right' to this one, and 'you're right' to that one, and the guy in the middle is an ass-hole.

Leon reads aloud from an article in the Reader's Digest about voting to select a national flower. Leon votes for dandelions. Joseph and Clyde vote for grass.

Joseph goes to the Social Service Department. Can I help you? the secretary inquires. Joseph answers: Yes, I am God. I've come to see about a release from the hospital.

Ypsilanti State Hospital is located nine miles southeast of Ann Arbor and about seventy-five miles southeast of East Lansing. It was opened in 1931 with a bed capacity of 1,000; its present capacity is 4,100.

At the same time, it should not be overlooked that we do not as yet have much understanding of the nature of psychotic systems of belief, or the conditions leading to their formation, organization, development, or modification; nor, for that matter, of normal systems of belief. The

Every man would like to be God, if it were possible; some few find it difficult to admit the impossibility." BERTRAND RUSSELL Power