Disorder Quotes - Page 5

• Nature-deficit disorder describes the human costs of alienation from nature, among them: diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, and higher rates of physical and emotional illnesses. The disorder can be detected in individuals, families, and communities.

  Richard Louv

  Emotional, Community, Attention

  Richard Louv (2008). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.36, Algonquin Books

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• I hate religion. I think it's a neurological disorder.

  Bill Maher

  Hate, Thinking, I Hate

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up in a school system . . . where nobody understood the meaning of learning disorder. In the West Indies, I was constantly being physically abused because the whipping of students was permitted.

  Harry Belafonte

  School, West Indies, Students

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• The need to compile lists is a personality disorder, as is the need to assert the superiority of some things over other things.

  Jeremy Hardy

  Personality, Needs, Lists

  Radio Times, August 5-11, 2006.

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• The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Order, Chaos

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.226

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• The three most ancient opinions concerning God are Anarchia, Polyarchia, and Monarchia. The first two are the sport of the children of Hellas, and may they continue to be so. For Anarchy is a thing without order; and the Rule of Many is factious, and thus anarchical, and thus disorderly. For both these tend to the same thing, namely disorder; and this to dissolution, for disorder is the first step to dissolution. But Monarchy is what we hold in honor.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Sports, Children, Order

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• The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression.

  Alexander Berkman

  Evil, Liberty, Libertarian

  Alexander Berkman (2003). “What is Anarchism?”, p.234, AK Press

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• A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Age, Nervous

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.842, Library of America

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• Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.

  C. V. Wedgwood

  Despair, Energy, Discontent

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• What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.

  Florence Nightingale

  Selfish, War, Nursing

  Florence Nightingale (2001). “The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”

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• Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Sleep, Phantoms, Spirit

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Henry IV”, p.53, Luigi Pirandello

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• Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Advantage, States

  Jonathan Swift (1752). “The works of D. Jonathan Swift ...: To which is prefixed, the doctor's life, with remarks on his writings, from the Earl of Orrery and others, not to be found in any former edition of his works.Dublin printed”, p.279

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• My words of encouragement for teen girls suffering with eating disorders, self-harm, anything... is to get help. It's the most important thing you can do for yourself, and it can change your life and potentially save your life.

  Demi Lovato

  Girl, Encouragement, Self Harm

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• Careful studies of cases dealing with supposed 'mental disorder' have at times revealed that many thought to be insane or warped in some fashion were actually simply highly sensitive individuals. What they suffered from was not mental debilitation, but personal and communal ignorance of psychic reality.

  Aberjhani

  Fashion, Ignorance, Knowledge

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• Close investigation will show that the primary cause of oppression and injustice, of unrighteousness, irregularity and disorder, is the people's lack of religious faith and the fact that they are uneducated.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Religious, Educational, People

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• All warfare is based on deception. Therefore, when capable, feign incapacity; when active, inactivity. When near, make it appear that you are far away; when far away, that you are to lure him; feign disorder and strike him. When he concentrates, prepare against him; where he is strong, avoid him. Anger his general and confuse him. Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

  Sun Tzu

  Strong, Arrogance, Deception

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• A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and confident; for, with a very few examples, he will be more merciful than those who, from excess of tenderness, allow disorders to arise, from whence spring murders and rapine; for these as a rule injure the whole community, while the executions carried out by the prince injure only one individual. And of all princes, it is impossible for a new prince to escape the name of cruel, new states being always full of dangers.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, Spring, War

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, ch. 17, as translated by Luigi Ricci (1903), 1513.

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• No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Science, Cures, Quills

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.377

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• When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be reduced to arithmetical computation, the result will appear most astonishing to those...not in the habit of reflecting how many of the mightiest of operations in nature are effected insensibly, without noise or disorder.

  Charles Lyell

  Science, Rivers, Numbers

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• I don't believe consumers want to see fuller-figured girls in ads. Because if they did they would refuse to buy the things they are seeing, and want to buy a different product. If people really want to see a change, they have to speak up on a daily basis to see that change. And I think that models who are suffering from an eating disorder, it is as sad to look at them as the person who is suffering from obesity or who is smoking outside their office or person who is drinking too much at the bar - everybody is suffering from something pretty much.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Girl, Drinking, Believe

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• Having a mood disorder is not synonymous with having artistic talent, but it is true that people in the so-called creative professions-writers, actors, artists, musicians-have a higher than normal incidence of such illnesses, and there are also a disproportionate number of alcoholics in these fields whose drinking may be an attempt to medicate the anxiety of depression.

  Tracy Thompson

  Depression, Drinking, Artist

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• As a scientist leading a funding agency for autism research, I think of autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder.

  Thomas R. Insel

  Thinking, Agency, Autism

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• Do not ride in cars: they are responsible for 20% of all fatal accidents. Do not stay at home: 17% of all accidents occur in the home. Do not walk on the streets or pavements: 14% of all accidents occur to pedestrians. Do not travel by air, rail, or water: 16% of accidents happen on these. Only .001% of all deaths occur in worship services in church, and these are usually related to previous physical disorders. Hence the safest place for you to be at any time is at church!

  Mark Leslie

  Christian, Home, Air

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• It is therefore absurd to approach the subject of health piecemeal with a departmentalized band of specialists. A medical doctor uninterested in nutrition, in agriculture, in the wholesomeness of mind and spirit is as absurd as a farmer who is uninterested in health. Our fragmentation of this subject cannot be our cure, because it is our disease. The body cannot be whole alone. Persons cannot be whole alone. It is wrong to think that bodily health is compatible with spiritual confusion or cultural disorder, or with polluted air and water or impoverished soil.

  Wendell Berry

  Spiritual, Thinking, Air

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.99, Counterpoint

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• Any man who leads the regular and temperate life, not swerving from it in the least degree where his nourishment is concerned, can be but little affected by other disorders or incidental mishaps. Whereas, on the other hand, I truly conclude that disorderly habits of living are those which are fatal.

  Luigi Cornaro

  Life, Men, Hands

  LUIGI CORNARO (1915). “The Art of LIVING LONG”

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