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  • Everything is pathology, except for indifference. -- Emile M. Cioran
  • The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right. -- Robert Farrar Capon
  • Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology. -- Mason Cooley
  • Pathology is not a problem to be solved, but the soul's way of working on itself. -- James Hillman
  • I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family. -- Naomi Judd
  • Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure. -- Christopher Lasch
  • A Separation Sociology produces a Separation Pathology, pathological behaviors of self-destruction, engaged in individually and collectively, and producing suffering, conflict, violence, and death by our own hands. -- Neale Donald Walsch
  • The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual. -- Philip Zimbardo
  • Cat, you asked me before to find out if those dream -suppression pills had any side effects. I've checked with Pathology, and they said you might experience depression, mood swings, irritability, paranoia, and chronic fatigue. Have you noticed any of that? -- Jeaniene Frost
  • Certainty is usually a sign of pathology. -- B. W. Powe
  • Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals. -- Diana Trilling
  • Stalinism is a pathology of socialism, Hitlerism being the apposite example for capitalism. -- Robert Heilbroner
  • That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane. -- Erich Fromm
  • You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body. -- Richard Selzer
  • Introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. -- Susan Cain
  • I think it's ill-advised to attribute pathologies to healthy people. It doesn't help normal, healthy, thriving children to be viewed as pitiable and fragile. -- Christina Hoff Sommers
  • My nutritionist read my pathology report and said, "There's only one way you can beat your cancer.""What's that?""You have to find out what caused it. -- Kathy Acker
  • Cellular pathology is not an end if one cannot see any alteration in the cell. Chemistry brings the clarification of living processes nearer than does anatomy. Each anatomical change must have been preceded by a chemical one. -- Rudolf Virchow
  • ...Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don't develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well. -- Timothy Keller
  • We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various forms of pathology. -- Noam Chomsky
  • Those who automatically say that the social pathology of the ghetto is due to poverty discrimination and the like cannot explain why such pathology was far less prevalent in the 1950s, when poverty and discrimination were worse. But there were not nearly as many grievance mongers and race hustlers then. -- Thomas Sowell
  • The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane. -- Erich Fromm
  • Consensual paranoia - the pathology of the normal person who is a member of a war-justifying society - forms the template from which all the images of the enemy are created. By studying the logic of paranoia, we can see why certain archetypes of the enemy must necessarily recur, no matter what the historical circumstances. -- Sam Keen
  • War is not a pathology that, with proper hygiene and treatment, can be wholly prevented. War is a natural condition of the State, which was organized in order to be an effective instrument of violence on behalf of society. Wars are like deaths, which, while they can be postponed, will come when they will come and cannot be finally avoided. -- Philip Bobbitt
  • In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic medical narrative that conceals the remorselessness of pathology, the intractable fact of human vulnerability, and the inevitable inadequacies of medicine. To many of the participants in the medical drama, aggressive treatment - even when it fails - represents a quasi-religious quest for immortality and meaning. -- Suzanne Gordon
  • Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against. -- Noam Chomsky
  • I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence. -- Fritz Lang
  • A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology. -- Susan Cain
  • I'll bet you a six-pack of Coors that pretty soon, people will be discovering Cretaceous parasites inside Cretaceous bones. The possibility of looking into epidemiology and pathology is pretty cool. -- Robert T. Bakker
  • When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a severe homesickness. -- Nicole Krauss
  • Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center. -- Eddie Van Halen
  • I want to be very careful about judging and how much to generalize about the use of media being pathological. For some people, it's a temptation and a pathology; for others, it's a lifeline. -- Howard Rheingold
  • Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perhaps addresses social dysfunction or some sort of pathology, while mine present a slice that is more upbeat and affirmative. -- Alexander McCall Smith
  • People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called mad, and sometimes they're called fiction writers. I always feel lucky that I live in a culture where fiction writing is legal and not seen as pathology. -- Ruth Ozeki
  • We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams. -- Irvin D. Yalom
  • There is an element in which anxiety co-represents with aspects of my personality I wouldn't want to give up. It allows you to have foresight. I may not be as empathetic. It's hard to figure out the difference between pathology and personality. -- Scott Stossel
  • There was an opening in the ER program at King Drew, so I spent the next month there, fascinated with the range of pathology that I observed, the diversity of skill that the ER physicians had to acquire, the variety of cases, and the ability to interact closely with people. -- Samuel Wilson
  • When I was 10 years old, a cousin of mine took me on a tour of his medical school. And as a special treat, he took me to the pathology lab and took a real human brain out of the jar and placed it in my hands. And there it was, the seat of human consciousness, the powerhouse of the human body, sitting in my hands. -- Aditi Shankardass
  • Racism is a visual pathology. -- Adrian Piper
  • What we call normal may be the psycho-pathology of the average. -- Deepak Chopra
  • Sometimes my pathology just spills out into the camera doesn't it? -- Craig Ferguson
  • Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology... -- Susan Sontag
  • Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism - and sometimes it's both. -- Jane Fonda
  • The inability to grasp the pathology* of our oligarchic rulers is one of our gravest faults. -- Chris Hedges
  • Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • The pathology is to want control, not that you ever get it, because of course you never do. -- Gregory Bateson
  • The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed. -- Tom DeMarco
  • The great and constant need of those who investigate homicide and practice forensic pathology or criminal law is a warm humanism. -- Ramsey Clark
  • The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. -- Erich Fromm
  • Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor. -- Avital Ronell
  • One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many of them were homosexuals, the two things seem to go together, it is a pathology it is a sickness. -- Pat Roberts
  • As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual sadism is not content to degrade women only. -- Christopher Hitchens
  • Liberals have been driven to the desperate expedient of attributing . . .social pathology in today's ghettos to 'a legacy of slavery' even though black children grew up with two parents more often under slavery than today. -- Thomas Sowell
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