20th century Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century.”

— Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Most disease is psychic occult attack.

— Frederick Lenz

“Some people are like a venereal disease.”

— Tracey Martin

“This extreme treatment was among the proliferating regimens developed in response to the stunning increase in nervous disorders diagnosed around the turn of the…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.

— Edward Young

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

— William Shenstone

“There is no talking rationally, using logic or facts, with someone under the spell of the psychic epidemic, as their ability to reason and…

— Paul Levy

People little dream of how their affairs react on the body. There is a mental correspondence for every disease.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under…

— Gene Tierney

In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical"…

— Susan Sontag

Some people don't want to know that very little progress has been made. It is in the same way that companies are selling their…

— Ravida Din