Psychological Defense Quotes

#1. Compartmentalization is an unconscious psychological defense mechanism employed to avoid cognitive dissonance.

Zack Love

#2. Most people's lives are nothing more than pointlessly frantic activity used as a psychological defense against their own impotence and fear.

Tucker Max

#3. They feel guilty for having survived so they pretend the bad things never happened
Exodus (1960) screenplay

Dalton Trumbo

#4. CEM is a dark psychological stealth bomber, avoiding detection and defense until it is too late.

Michael Pace

#5. When God forgives us and purifies us of our sin, He also forgets it. Forgiveness results in God dropping the charges against us.

Billy Graham

#6. Inappropriate behavior makes me laugh.

Will Ferrell

#7. Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

Nicolas Chamfort

#8. Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.

William Shakespeare

#9. I don't think I can see the world through other people's eyes, but I can capture an attitude or a look that makes others think I can. I have an appreciation for why people choose to look the way they do. But I can't know what they experience.

Cindy Sherman

#10. There are many legal and psychological ramifications to using Krav Maga in the real world and nearly all of them are extremely unpleasant.

Craig De Ruisseau

#11. The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.

Frances Beinecke

#12. You need to stop making excuses for your mistakes, as long as you are complaining about what you did wrong you will never get started on doing it right

Carlton Young

#13. To live without that enchantment of beauty is to interpret frugality and simple living with a puritan literalism

John Lane

#14. The capacity for dissociation enables the young child to exercise their innate life-sustaining need for attachment in spite of the fact that principal attachment figures are also principal abusers.

Warwick Middleton

#15. Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?

Plautus

#16. The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for.

Eckhart Tolle

#17. Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?

Stephen King

#18. It is our daily lament that we cannot love enough. Would that our hearts were capable of holding more, and reaching further.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon