Pathological Quotes

71 quotes by 62 authors

If I were to see the case of a boy aged ten or eleven who's intensely erotically attracted toward a man in his twenties or… — John Money
It does not seem possible to think of oneself as normal without thinking that some other kind of person is pathological, — Michael Warner
What worries me is that we are increasingly enmeshed in incompetent systems, that is, systems that exhibit pathological behaviour but cant fix themselves. — John Naughton
Iâ€™ve made my lifeâ€™s work spotting assholes. And you know, I think itâ€™s harder now than ever before because thereâ€™s so many socially acceptable ways… — Merrill Markoe
In Madison's famous formulation in the Federalist, constitutional restrictions on government assume that we "first enable the government to control the governed." If the public… — Stephen Holmes
Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed… — Bill Moyers
Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own. Susan Sontag warned against overburdening an illness with… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological! — Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Deep down we all suspect that something is very wrong with the way we perceive life but we try very, very hard not to notice… — Adyashanti
My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because… — Paul Theroux
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such… — Frank Herbert
For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power… — Audre Lorde
It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual religiosity; to define… — Sigmund Freud
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological. — Robert Breault
...Pathological states are the consequence of several determinate factors acting simultaneously...The manifestations of any given agent differ profoundly from one person to another. ...Each noxious… — Rene Dubos
Pathological Stubbornness and Irrational Optimism â€“ Lessons Iâ€™ve learned on my entrepreneurial journey — Ruth Kelly
Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing… — Paul Harding
Leadership that is entirely self-directed will always be pathological.Â The only thing worse than worshipping an idol is to act like an idol. — Mel Lawrenz
I have a pathological terror of falling through ice. I nearly drowned once. I fell off a boat and got a cramp, and was rescued… — Jeremy Clarkson
In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that… — Richard Ford

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