That is, we are bombarded by all kinds of images and influences and we have to fend some of them off if we're to take in any of them, or to carry through just our ordinary day's work, or really… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
What I found was when I started my first study, and then in subsequent studies, is here you have people under some kind of duress, or I chose to study them because they represented some kind of historical event, as… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports,… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
There's more and more recognition that a carbon economy is dangerous to us economically. And there is increasing recognition that renewable fuels have economic… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
I struggled with each of these studies and I was uncertain about what they meant, and often confused, and then I tried to put… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts. — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
Donald Trump gives the impression that he would like to govern by decree. He has that impulse in him and he wants to be… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
There are people who believe that there should be a standard psychiatric examination for every presidential candidate and for every president. But these are… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
One reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was that in this personal journey, I had the feeling increasingly that I… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
We have a duty to warn on an individual basis if we are treating someone who may be dangerous to herself or to others… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
“The ditties blend Japanese popular culture themes of saccharine, childlike goodness and viciously detached sadism, which Aum drew upon as it tapped the barely… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
The scientists who made the atomic bomb are, in my sense, people with a tragic destiny. You know, there was the US race with… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
“Psychologically, nothing is darker or more menacing, or harder to accept, than the participation of physicians in mass murder. However technicized or commercial the… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
That is, we are bombarded by all kinds of images and influences and we have to fend some of them off if we're to… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
