Psychological Quotes - Page 20

• Totalitarianism extends to whatever touches it...psychological technique, as it operates in the army or in a great industrial plant, entails a direct action on the family. It involves a psychological adaptation of family life to military or industrial methods, supervision of family life, and training family life for military or industrial service. Technique can leave nothing untouched in a civilization. Everything is its concern. Technique, which is destroying all other civilizations, is more than a simple mechanism: it's a whole civilization in itself.

  Jacques Ellul

  Military, Army, Technology

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• The advantages of having decisions made by groups are often lost because of powerful psychological pressures that arise when the members work closely together, share the same set of values and, above all, face a crisis situation that puts everyone under intense stress

  Irving Janis

  Powerful, Stress, Responsibility

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• So great are the psychological resistances to war in modern nations, that every war must appear to be a war of defence against a menacing, murderous aggressor. There must be no ambiguity about whom the public is to hate. Guilt and guilelessness must be assessed geographically and all the guilt must be on the other side of the frontier.

  Harold Lasswell

  War, Hate, Guilt

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• We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process we lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: the guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win. The North Vietnamese used their armed forces the way a bull-fighter uses his cape to keep us lunging in areas of marginal political importance.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Military, War, Army

  "The Vietnam Negotiations". Foreign Affairs, Vol. 48, No. 2, p. 214, January 1969.

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• I propose that the phenomenon of love is the psychological pivot in the persecution of women.

  Ti-Grace Atkinson

  Love Is, Feminist, Radical

  Ti-Grace Atkinson (1974). “Amazon odyssey”

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• We must pay attention to the millions of children of this generation who are caught up in armed conflicts. How can we protect them from the worst consequences of war? And when hostilities cease, how can we take the war out of them? By eliminating landmines, controlling the sale of small arms, raising the age of recruitment ... are all essential measures. By reuniting children with their families and providing programs of physical and psychological rehabilitation.

  Landon Pearson

  Children, War, Age

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• In order to get inside their skin, I have to identify with them. That includes even the ones who are complete bastards, nasty, twisted, deeply flawed human beings with serious psychological problems. Even them. When I get inside their skin and look out through their eyes, I have to feel a certain - if not sympathy, certainly empathy for them. I have to try to perceive the world as they do, and that creates a certain amount of affection.

  George R. R. Martin

  Writing, Eye, Order

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• The photograph is not only a pictorial report; it is also a psychological report. It represents the feelings and point of view of the intelligence behind the camera.

  Alexey Brodovitch

  Photography, Views, Feelings

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• For the academic the rhetorical sense of superiority through the possession of knowledge is essential for facing the daily grind, turning again to the otherwise boring article, braving the students who, fresh as each class may be, will still ask the same questions year after year. Psychological survival is not achieved without effort, and the environment must be managed, knocked about with one's elbows until it takes a shape comfortable to one's sense of self. This is not selfishness, for in reshaping the environment the academic is also reinvigorating the educational process.

  Robin Winks

  Educational, Teaching, Years

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• Propaganda tries to force a doctrine on the whole people; the [party] organization embraces within its scope only those who do not threaten on psychological grounds to become a brake on the further dissemination of ideas.

  Adolf Hitler

  Party, Organization, Ideas

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• In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense.

  Sigmund Freud

  Sexuality, Found, Femininity

  Sigmund Freud (1962). “Three essays on the theory of sexuality”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to evolutionary and psychological transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells.

  Joanna Macy

  Fall, Emotional, Shells

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• It [Christian Social Party] recognized the value of large-scale propaganda and was a virtuoso in influencing the psychological instincts of the broad masses of its adherents.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Religious, Party

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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• Wilderness has become one of the world's fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable. Yet unlike oil, gold or woodchips, it is essential to the wellbeing of humanity. We are made of it and fashioned by it...our psychological beings resonate with it.

  Bob Brown

  Oil, Humanity, Gold

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• The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to come by because most nations are deceived about themselves. Rationalizations and the incessant search for scapegoats are the psychological cataracts that blind us to our sins. But the day has passed for superficial patriotism. He who lives with untruth lives in spiritual slavery.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Spiritual, War, America

  "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam". Speech at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, www.informationclearinghouse.info. April 30, 1967.

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• As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Powerful, Self Esteem, Night

  Martin Luther King, Jr. (2016). “MLK on "The Other America" and "Black Power"”, p.15, Beacon Press

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• There is always great beauty, not of images, feeling or thought. Beauty is neither thought nor feeling; it has nothing whatsoever to do with emotion or sentiment. There is fear. Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present, is it fear? It is there and there is no escape from it, no evasion possible. There, at that actual moment, there is total attention at the moment of danger, physical or psychological.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Fear, Inattention, Facts

  "Krishnamurti's notebook".

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• Singing is something you can do for a lifetime, and studies prove it is good for mental, physical, social and psychological health.

  Mike Kruger

  Music, Psychological Health, Singing

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• A purely psychological explanation is ruled out... the discs show signs of intelligent guidance, by quasi-human pilots.

  Carl Jung

  Intelligent, Pilots, Guidance

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• I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'

  Mika Brzezinski

  Birthday, Letting Go, Years

  "Getting Fired And How It Teaches You To Be A Better Parent" by Mika Brzezinski, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I can understand your aversion to the use of the term 'religion' to describe an emotional and psychological attitude which shows itself most clearly in Spinoza... I have not found a better expression than 'religious' for the trust in the rational nature of reality that is, at least to a certain extent, accessible to human reason.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Attitude, Reality

  "Einstein and Oppenheimer". Book by Silvan S. Schweber, Harvard University Press, p. 291, 2009.

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• Having a financial adviser enables the investor to carry a psychological call option. If the investment decision turns out well, the investor takes the credit, and if it turns out badly, the regret can be lowered by blaming the adviser.

  Hersh Shefrin

  Regret, Decision, Credit

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• I’m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire

  Gregory Crewdson

  Photography, Art, Nature

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• We acquire both the language and religious concepts from our immediate culture – at the same time. A child cannot discriminate between useful survival information and the emotional and psychological manipulations of religion. Once infected, these ideas are deeply embedded and almost impossible to change.

  Darrel Ray

  Religious, Children, Emotional

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• You can't do psychological thrillers. There's no audience. I've heard this. I've heard this from studios.

  Eriq La Salle

  Thrillers, Heard, Audience

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

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