Behavior Quote by Arthur C. Clarke

“In the macrosocial phenomenon we shall later call “pathocracy”, a certain hereditary anomaly isolated as “essential psychopathy” is catalytically and causatively essential for the…

— Andrzej Lobaczewski

“Social psychologist argued that even severe mental illness was the result of society labeling unusual behavior rather than of biochemical processes.”

— Thomas Scheff

“Now, of course, it’s extremely easy to say, “The heck with it—I’m just going to adapt myself to the structures of power and authority,…

— Noam Chomsky

“Self-interest, fear of physical pain, drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insincerity was clearly to be seen. He ceases to be…

— Anthony Burgess

“Particularity leads to peculiarity and then to pathological behavior. The three Ps. It is very insidious. You would eventually end up in a box.…

— Susan Trott

“Psychoanalytic insight, Miller seems to suggest, is itself a pathological symptom.”

— Alison Bechdel

“I do not use psychiatric terms in my writing because the entrenched and developing behaviours were perfectly normal reactions to abnormal situations.”

— Jane Hersey

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

— Emile M. Cioran

Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the…

— Karl Abraham

Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease

— Octavia Butler

My father is a cultural anthropologist and my mother ran an outpatient clinic and treated a lot of people who had been institutionalised. I…

— Eliza Hittman

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

— Hosea Ballou