Robert Jay Lifton

As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were…

— Robert Jay Lifton

There's more and more recognition that a carbon economy is dangerous to us economically. And there is increasing recognition that renewable fuels…

— Robert Jay Lifton

I struggled with each of these studies and I was uncertain about what they meant, and often confused, and then I tried…

— Robert Jay Lifton

And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.

— Robert Jay Lifton

Donald Trump gives the impression that he would like to govern by decree. He has that impulse in him and he wants…

— Robert Jay Lifton

There are people who believe that there should be a standard psychiatric examination for every presidential candidate and for every president. But…

— Robert Jay Lifton

One reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was that in this personal journey, I had the feeling increasingly…

— Robert Jay Lifton

We have a duty to warn on an individual basis if we are treating someone who may be dangerous to herself or…

— Robert Jay Lifton

“The ditties blend Japanese popular culture themes of saccharine, childlike goodness and viciously detached sadism, which Aum drew upon as it tapped…

— Robert Jay Lifton

The scientists who made the atomic bomb are, in my sense, people with a tragic destiny. You know, there was the US…

— Robert Jay Lifton

“Psychologically, nothing is darker or more menacing, or harder to accept, than the participation of physicians in mass murder. However technicized or…

— Robert Jay Lifton

That is, we are bombarded by all kinds of images and influences and we have to fend some of them off if…

— Robert Jay Lifton

Donald Trump doesn't have clear contact with reality, though I'm not sure it qualifies as a bona fide delusion. He needs things…

— Robert Jay Lifton

The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed…

— Robert Jay Lifton

People with what we call mental illness can indeed serve well, and people who have no discernible mental illness - and that…

— Robert Jay Lifton

There is a movement of more people recognizing global warming as a danger, recognizing the human contribution to global warming, recognizing the…

— Robert Jay Lifton

I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and…

— Robert Jay Lifton

Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that…

— Robert Jay Lifton

But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then…

— Robert Jay Lifton

It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and…

— Robert Jay Lifton

But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite…

— Robert Jay Lifton

When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that…

— Robert Jay Lifton

Donald Trump both disbelieves and believes in falsehoods, so that when he did thrive on his longstanding - the claim that Obama…

— Robert Jay Lifton

“The incident does not mean that most Japanese were not appalled by Aum. It does suggest that many young adults viewed their…

— Robert Jay Lifton

David Frankfurter's valuable, well-written study takes us to the far reaches of demonology. In documenting the harm done by labeling others evil,…

— Robert Jay Lifton