Culture Quote by Erich Fromm

The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The…

— Erich Fromm

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

— Siri Hustvedt

There are some sick people in this world.

— Phil McGraw

We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal.

— Edward Abbey

I think that we're making a mistake if we don't see that there is a cultural basis to many illnesses, not just psychiatric ones.…

— Jonathan Michel Metzl

“The "pathology of normalcy" rarely deteriorates to graver forms of mental illness because society produces the antidote against such deterioration. When pathological processes become…

— Erich Fromm

The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization

— Herbert Marcuse

The sick are victims of their own imagination.

— Pol Pot

If a culture treats a particular illness with compassion and enlightened understanding, then sickness can be seen as a challenge, as a healing crisis…

— Ken Wilber

The sick person is able to sense more than other people notice.

— Reinhold Schneider

A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.

— Ada Leverson

Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson