A Quote by Kate Millett
The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.
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Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.
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If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and ethics is epistemology.
For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.
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