Racism is a visual pathology.

We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And nothing but…

— Florence Nightingale

“Memory research that supports a non-pathologizing, coherence-based model of symptom production in the wide range of cases where symptoms are generated by emotional memory.…

— Bruce Ecker

You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.

— Richard Selzer

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“As a rule, sexually selected traits tend to be more condition-dependent --and thus more vulnerable to dysfunctions-- than other phenotypes. This contributes to explain…

— Marco del Giudice

As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual sadism is…

— Christopher Hitchens

The attack on youth is a national pathology, unwarranted by fact, smokescreen for the failure of adulthood and its leadership to confront larger predicaments.…

— Mike A. Males

My nutritionist read my pathology report and said, "There's only one way you can beat your cancer." "What's that?" "You have to find out…

— Kathy Acker

“The evolved preference for sugary and fatty foods (a functional mechanism) may lead to obesity because of a mismatch with modern nutrition (a maladaptive…

— Marco del Giudice

The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.

— Robert Farrar Capon

Liberals have been driven to the desperate expedient of attributing . . .social pathology in today's ghettos to 'a legacy of slavery' even though…

— Thomas Sowell

Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology...

— Susan Sontag

The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology.

— Erich Fromm

When I first raised the issue of the so-called Islamic State at the Munich Security Conference in February, speaking about its economy, its flexibility…

— Ashraf Ghani

Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor.

— Avital Ronell