In a captive environment, paranoia is unavoidable. Only the prison authorities call it paranoia; prisoners call it sensible precautions... Most prisoners are perfectly mentally healthy compared with the paranoia of prison officials.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "In a captive environment, paranoia is unavoidable. Only the prison authorities call it paranoia; prisoners call it sensible precautions... Most prisoners are perfectly mentally healthy compared with the paranoia of prison officials." in the context of "Ian Brady, as quoted in Evening Standard, Tue 25 June 2013, pp.1-4" to mean that wisdom is timeless.