#psycho

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#jews #nationality #other #people #psychosis

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine. ↗

— Bernard Berenson

#cerebral #intestine #mind #minds #occupied

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#history #human #human nature #keeps #nature

To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#desire #different #easy #film-maker #get

One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#being #live #processes #psychological #us

We are all capable of becoming something monstrous. ↗

— Cyraus Foldger

#philosophy-of-life-people #psychology #life

A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#being #between #boy #conflict #desire

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl. ↗

— Shirley Chisholm

#begins #doctor #emotional #females #girl

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#barriers #coercion #given #history #human

When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged. ↗

— Thomas Gilovich

#logic #mind #psychology #attitude