• To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.

    Richard Hofstadter: To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.
    Richard Hofstadter (2011). “The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it”, p.398, Vintage