"It was because of my deep concerns about……" — Robert Jay Lifton
"It was because of my deep concerns about nuclear weapons that I went to Hiroshima. And then I was astounded in Hiroshima to find that nobody had really studied it."
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27 Quotes by Robert Jay Lifton
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I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of…
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Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional…
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But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it…
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In sum, doubling is the psychological means by which one invokes the evil potential of the self. That evil is…
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And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.
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And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and…
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Sometimes its said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into…
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I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.
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David Frankfurter's valuable, well-written study takes us to the far reaches of demonology. In documenting the harm done by labeling…
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Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these…
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One reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was that in this personal journey, I had the…
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As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I…
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I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere…
— David Attenborough
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I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a…
— David Bowie
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I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
— Woody Allen
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When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned…
— Mark Twain
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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars,…
— Guglielmo Marconi
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After 50 years, is it not clear that God has raised up new illnesses connected with fornication? From where do…
— John Calvin
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Anyone who has examined into the history of the theories of earth evolution must have been astounded to observe the…
— Unknown Author
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Oh, how great is the goodness of God, greater than we can understand. There are moments and there are mysteries…
— Mary Faustina Kowalska
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I read, for the first time, of the Carolina Parakeet-a North American parakeet whose green, yellow and reddish-orange plumage appeared…
— Christopher Cokinos
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I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal.
— Jean Paul Gaultier
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Furman astounded me with his chess depth, a depth which he revealed easily and naturally, as if all he were…
— Anatoly Karpov
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