Brock Chisholm Quotes

• To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas.

  Brock Chisholm

  Family, Loyalty, Religious

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• What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing these perversions is morality - the concept of right and wrong. The re-interpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are the belated objectives of nearly all of psychotherapy.

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  Civilization, America, Morality

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• The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for faith... are the belated objectives of practically all effective psychotherapy. The fact is, that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respectable people have escaped from these moral chains and are able to observe and think freely.

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  Family, Children, Intelligent

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• Children must be free to think in all directions irrespective of the peculiar ideas of parents who often seal their children's minds with preconceived prejudices and false concepts of past generations. Unless we are very careful, very careful indeed, and very conscientious, there is still great danger that our children may turn out to be the same kind of people we are.

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  Children, Past, Thinking

  "What We Observed in Teaching General Semantics". Et cetera, 61, pp. 482-486, 2004.

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• If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the original responsibility

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  Family, Responsibility, Race

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• ...the pretense is made, as it has been made in relation to the finding of any extension of truth, that to do away with right and wrong would produce uncivilized people, immorality, lawlessness and social chaos. The fact is that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respected people have escaped from moral chains and are able to think freely.

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  Family, Thinking, People

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• Conscience is what your mother told you before you were six years old.

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  Mother, Years, Cynical

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• The reinterpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are that belated objectives of nearly all Psychotherapy

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  Belated, Reinterpretation, Psychotherapy

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• The world was sick, and the ills from which it was suffering were mainly due to the perversion of man, his inability to live at peace with himself. The microbe was no longer the main enemy; science was sufficiently advanced to be able to cope with it admirably. If it were not for such barriers as superstition, ignorance, religious intolerance, misery and poverty.

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  Religious, Ignorance, Men

  "Public health, a progressive science". Monthly Bulletin of the Philippine Health Service, 24, 1948.

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• No one wins a war. It is true, there are degrees of loss, but no one wins.

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  War, Loss, Winning

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• You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.

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  Retail, Cures, Wholesale

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