Conflict Quote by Karen Horney Download Open image “[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself.” — Karen Horney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conflict Inner conflict Neurotic Torn War
Let me say to begin with: It is not neurotic to have conflict ... Conflicts within ourselves are an integral part of human life. — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Neurotics, who cause less distress to themselves and their neighbours than those in the other category, are at war with their own natures. Their… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“Every form of human conflict may be reduced to precisely the same pattern of mental events. We are all totalitarian despots over our own… — Bō Jinn Copy Share Image
“The so-called sensitivity of neurotics develops along with their egotism; they cannot bear for other people to flaunt the sufferings with which they are… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I'm going to make the obvious point that maybe the word neurotic means the condition of being highly conscious and developed. The essence of… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Neurotics have plenty of non-neurotic friends, but not for long. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“The weakling and the neurotic attached to his neurosis are not anxious to turn such a powerful searchlight upon the dark corners of their… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Of course, I'm aware of the animosities destroying brain cells on both sides, and I know all about the obstinacy of the warring parties,… — Yasmina Khadra Copy Share Image
Negative thinking, don't you waste your thoughts, verbal conflict is a waste of word, physical conflict is a waste of flesh. — Damian Marley Copy Share Image
“The fact that compulsive drives for success will arise only in a competitive culture does not make them any less neurotic.” — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
It would not be going too far to assert that ... conflict confronts every woman who ventures upon a career of her own and… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Life as a therapist is ruthless; circumstances that are helpful to one neurotic may crush another. — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live. — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
“For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can function with the core of himself not participating.” — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
“The tenacity with which the neurotic adheres to any attitude is a sure indication that the attitude fulfills functions which seem indispensable in the… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
There is a conflict in the Middle East between two entities, and they're both right, each in their own way. — Reuven Rivlin Copy Share Image
I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Africa, being the major target of colonial plunder, therefore becomes a major source of conflict. — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story. And without… — Syd Field Copy Share Image
The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“These are all good things, I said. But no one knows where your country is or who you are. You don't have a familiar… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I understand the formula that producers hire directors and directors are hired to direct and actors are hired to act. I don't have any… — Danny Trejo Copy Share Image
UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image