Disorder Quotes - Page 20

• When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).

  Aaron Siskind

  Photography, Self, Order

  Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”

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• The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the experience which brings them together.

  Aaron Siskind

  Photography, Simple, Together

  Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”

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• If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of his history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction. Murder within the species on an individual or collective scale is a phenomenon unknown in the whole animal kingdom, except for man, and a few varieties of ants and rats.

  Arthur Koestler

  Eye, Men, Animal

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• Don't misunderstand. I am not here bashing people who are homosexuals, who are lesbians, who are bisexual, who are transgender. We need to have profound compassion for people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life and sexual identity disorders.

  Michele Bachmann

  Real, Bisexual, Compassion

  EdWatch National Education Conference, November 06, 2004.

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• Male domination, and the low and stigmatised status of women, cause teenage girls to engage in punishment of their bodies through eating disorders and self-mutilation. There is increasing evidence that woman-hating Western cultures are toxic to girls and very harmful to their mental health. It is, perhaps, not surprising, therefore, that there seem to be some girls baling out and seeking to upgrade their status.

  Sheila Jeffreys

  Girl, Teenage, Hate

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• I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its unique capacity to organize or reorganize cerebral function when it has been damaged.

  Oliver Sacks

  Unique, Alzheimer's, Tools

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• The Art of Peace is medicine for a sick world. There is evil and disorder in the world, because people have forgotten that all things emanate from one source. Return to that source and leave behind all self-centered thoughts, petty desires, and anger. Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Peace, Self

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.12, Shambhala Publications

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• Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable. I go to cognitive behavioral therapy in order not to yell at my children.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Children, Order, Bipolar

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• The present order is the disorder of the future.

  Ian Hamilton Finlay

  Order

  Ian Hamilton Finlay, Alec Finlay (2012). “Ian Hamilton Finlay: Selections”, p.53, Univ of California Press

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• American Psychological Association, the girlie-girl culture’s emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness can increase girls’ vulnerability to the pitfalls that most concern parents: depression, eating disorders, distorted body image, risky sexual behavior.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Girl, Play, Parent

  Peggy Orenstein (2011). “Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• And so it is that we do not exist until we do; and then it is that we play with our world of existent things, and order and disorder them, and so it shall be that non-existence shall take us back from existence, and that nameless spirituality shall return to Void, like a tired child home from a very wild circus.

  Malaclypse the Younger

  Children, Home, Tired

  Malaclypse the Younger, Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst (2006). “Discordia: Hail the Goddess of Chaos and Confusion”, p.156, Ronin Publishing

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• Insomnia is an increasing problem. I've become swayed that sleep disorders are conceivably the most unnoticed, ignored, underrated reason of health as well as performance problems in the place of work.

  Sean Sullivan

  Sleep, Insomnia, Ignored

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• Immoral: Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral. If mans notions of right and wrong have any other basis than this of expediency; if they originated, or could have originated, in any other way; if actions have in themselves a moral character apart from and nowise dependent on, their consequences-then all philosophy is a lie and reason a disorder of the mind.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Running, Lying, Philosophy

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.98, 谷月社

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• In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

  Jan Karon

  Veterans Day, Stress, War

  Jan Karon (2007). “Home to Holly Springs”, p.289, Penguin

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• Do you see law and order? There is nothing but disorder, and instead of law there is the illusion of security. It is an illusion because it is built on a long history of injustices: racism, criminality, and the genocide of millions. Many people say it is insane to resist the system, but actually, it is insane not to.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Order, Law, Long

  Mumia Abu-Jamal (2003). “Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience”, p.11, South End Press

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• The Fighter was about a family struggling to overcome and fighting each other sometimes, and I went back and rewrote this script which I had written for my son initially because my son has mood disorder.

  David O. Russell

  Struggle, Fighting, Son

  "Writer-director David O. Russell". "The Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. February 8, 2013.

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• Love is a severe mental disorder.

  Plato

  Sexy, Love Is, Severe

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• I have on numerous occasions, as you know, expressed my sympathy in the establishment of a National Home for the Jews in Palestine and, despite the set-backs caused by the disorders there during the last few years, I have been heartened by the progress which has been made and by the remarkable accomplishments of the Jewish settlers in that country.

  Herbert Hoover

  Country, Home, Israel

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• Most women in our culture, then, are disordered when it comes to issues of self-worth, self-entitlement, self-nourishment, and comfort with their own bodies; eating disorders, far from being 'bizarre' and anomalous, are utterly continuous with a dominant element of the experience of being female in this culture.

  Susan Bordo

  Self Worth, Issues, Anorexia

  Susan Bordo (2004). “Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body”, p.57, Univ of California Press

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• The relationship between individuals or communities and the environment ultimately stems from their relationship with God. When ‘man turns his back on the Creator’s plan, he provokes a disorder which has inevitable repercussions on the rest of the created order.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Men, Order, Community

  Pope Benedict XVI (2014). “The Garden of God”, p.20, CUA Press

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• Practicing regular, mindful breathing can be calming and energizing and can even help with stress-related health problems ranging from panic attacks to digestive disorders.

  Andrew Weil

  Stress, Breathing, Panic Attacks

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• When we have disorderly lives, it makes it difficult for our minds to be orderly and for us to be at ease with disorder.

  Joan Halifax

  Mind, Ease, Difficult

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• Evidence is strongly suggesting Bipolar Disorder - previously known as Manic Depression - may be dramatically increasing in modern society.

  Gordon Parker

  Bipolar, May, Modern

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• Now, why is it that most of us can talk openly about the illnesses of our bodies, but when it comes to our brain and illnesses of the mind we clam up and because we clam up, people with emotional disorders feel ashamed, stigmatized, and don't seek the help that can make the difference.

  Kirk Douglas

  Emotional, Differences, People

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• I am presenting here today both revolution and anarchy, for which I am fortunately not the only one responsible. However, anarchy cannot survive and prosper except in an ordered society, and revolution becomes sooner or later the new order. Viruses have not failed to follow the general law. They are strict parasites which, born of disorder, have created a very remarkable new order to ensure their own perpetuation.

  Andre Michel Lwoff

  Order, Law, Viruses

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