Schizophrenia Quotes - Page 4

• Hollywood's schizophrenia over guns is matched only by their attitude toward taxes. Ever wonder why they film in Vancouver so often? It ain't for the beaches, I can tell you.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Beach, Attitude, Gun

  Greg Gutfeld (2014). “Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You”, p.178, Crown Forum

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• It turns out I have clinical schizophrenia. The unborn chicken voices were telling me to kill my family.

  Thom Yorke

  Voice, My Family, Chickens

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• I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.

  Alexis Korner

  Form, Beneficial, Organised

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• Love is great and it does help a lot of people, but a lot of people do have things like depression or schizophrenia or bipolar disorder or other disorders, all of which will need to be addressed in order for people to stay in long-term recovery.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Recovery, Love Is, Order

  Source: sojo.net

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• Vulnerable is a catch-all word like "love" and "schizophrenia."

  Jean Houston

  Like Love, Vulnerable

  "Soul Speaking and Truth Telling: A Conversation with Jean Houston". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.awaken.com. August 23, 2013.

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• Particularly with schizophrenia you see a lot of concern that these people could escape and kill people, or they could threaten our political order.

  Jonathan Michel Metzl

  Order, People, Political

  Source: bigthink.com

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• When L.A.’s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war with America, which was always an idea.

  Steve Erickson

  War, Ideas, America

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• A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics'. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Latin, Real

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison (2001). “Orwell and politics: Animal farm in the context of essays, reviews and letters selected from the complete works of George Orwell”, Penguin Modern Classics

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• There is almost no evidence that diagnoses such as 'schizophrenia' and 'bipolar disorder' correspond to discrete entities ('natural kinds' in the language of philosophy).

  Richard Bentall

  Philosophy, Bipolar, Diagnosis

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I know," he said in almost bored contemplation. "My manners suck. I like to chalk it up to a dissatisfying childhood." "I'd chalk it up to that narcissistic personality disorder laces with a smidgen of schizophrenia. Your mother would be proud.

  Darynda Jones

  Mother, Bored, Personality

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