Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“But does psychological sophistication override a sense that some actions are just plain bad? How much of human behaviour, in the end,… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
As my spiritual growth expanded and developed, voluntary simplicity was a natural outgrowth. I came to realize the cost of material accumulation… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
Mature psychological health cannot exist unless we are capable of doubting any form of conceptual certitude about ourselves or anything else. — Richard Moss Copy Share Image
Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide Copy Share Image
The most that can be said of flattery is that it is sometimes a cheap psychological trick with which charlatans and dishonest… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not useful for the satisfying of hunger… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Integrated meditation practice is like a healthy diet which is indispensable for maintaining your vitality and resistance to disease. Likewise, a balanced… — B. Alan Wallace Copy Share Image
The enormous social change involved in a sexual revolution is basically a matter of altered consciousness, the exposure and elimination of social… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
The creation of India and Pakistan were pyrrhic victories for their denizens because the political, socioeconomic, psychological, and culture havoc wreaked by… — Nyla Ali Khan Copy Share Image
If you can stop using substance or stop your addictive behavior for extended periods of time without craving, you are not dependent.… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
We must pay attention to the millions of children of this generation who are caught up in armed conflicts. How can we… — Landon Pearson Copy Share Image
Golf is not a wrestle with Bogey; it is not a struggle with your mortal foe; it is a physiological, psychological and… — Arnold Haultain Copy Share Image
I tend to come from a more psychological - that's sort of my passion. I'm interested in the psychology of politics as… — Joan Cusack Copy Share Image
“They luxuriated in the feeling of deep and all pervading satisfaction, a feeling of knowing absolutely that all was well with the… — Hubert Selby Jr Copy Share Image
Some psychological and sociological conditioning occurs in every man's life and this affects the decisions he makes. But we must resist the… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Religion can have psychological and social roles, but in terms of really explaining how things work, science works differently. Science is based… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
You're trying to bring an emotional and psychological reality to a character that's on the page and make them three-dimensional. — Tom Irwin Copy Share Image
Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions. — Aaron T. Beck Copy Share Image
To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies. — Richard King Copy Share Image
My message is to forget about dichotomies. The 'Brain Opera' is an opera, even if it does not tell a story in… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
“He didn’t think it was addiction. At some point, he had simply forgotten how to wake up. The wolf’s blood no longer… — Valon G Copy Share Image
All the pictures I do are contemporary. I've sort of discovered I haven't really been into science fiction or period pictures. And… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
What do you do when you don't know what to do? No wonder there are more suicides among psychiatrists than in any… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Boom Bang a Bang was a huge part of me, maybe a part that I didnt relish, and there might be psychological… — Lulu Copy Share Image
I think a lot of psychological healing tends to work on that basis. We go into the unconscious to find what's holding… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Our goals should stretch us bit by bit. So often when we think we have encountered a ceiling, it is really a… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
If you're going to solve a weight-loss problem - or smoking problem for that matter - you must address both the psychological… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
“The peace we can aspire to then is not a harmonious peace of the grave, nor a submissive peace of the slave,… — William Ury Copy Share Image
After people become convinced they have what it takes to succeed, they persevere in the face of adversity and quickly rebound from… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
Ghosts are a metaphor that can be interpreted so many different ways. There's no ending to what you can do. You can… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is a psychological and psychiatric disorder, there is no question about it. It is a purple menace that is threatening the… — Charles W. Socarides Copy Share Image
