Affluence Quote by Richard J. Foster

We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with…

— Richard J. Foster

The passion to interpret as madness that with which we disagree seems to have infected the best of contemporary minds.

— Thomas Szasz

The world is a collective madhouse, its inhabitants are merely faking sanity. It is critical to becoming aware of these aberrations, for pretensions can…

— John Astin

“pathological narcissists can lose touch with reality in subtle ways that become extremely dangerous over time. When they can’t let go of their need…

— Bandy X Lee

All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.

— Sri Aurobindo

The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with…

— Arthur Erickson

The Theatre of the Absurd ... can be seen as the reflection of what seems to be the attitude most genuinely representative of our…

— Martin Esslin

In many ways, I think that, while we've been remarkably violent in our media, there's been a real schizophrenia. In private, on the Internet,…

— Ivan Reitman

It seems to me a measure of the true perversity of the human race, that one of its very few reliably pleasurable activities should…

— Otto Gross

“Psychic change, as Todorov has recognized, subverted the genre in another way, by revoking the cultural taboos, the social censorship, that had prohibited the…

— Howard Kerr

“Spare a thought in 2013, this horrible horrible time to be alive, for the satirist. To satirise the self-satirising effluence that passes for populist…

— MJ Nicholls

The world is being destroyed by psychopaths, so of all the things to be concerned about - acting, it's not really up there, is…

— Reg E. Cathey