War Psychology Quotes

#1. It's my belief that, since the end of the Second World War, psychology has moved too far away from its original roots, which were to make the lives of all people more fulfilling and productive, and too much toward the important, but not all-important, area of curing mental illness.

Martin Seligman

#2. My father's haunting memories of war had been transformed into my own haunting memories. Such is the power of war and memory.

Roger Klare

#3. Fears don't exist in isolation. They tend to rise and fall depending on what people think they can do about them.

Peter Beinart

#4. Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true.

Stefan Molyneux

#5. To have great pain is to have certainty; to hear that another person has pain is to have doubt.

Elaine Scarry

#6. We already live on the planet of war, we already live on the red planet, and it's a war against children. All the other wars are just the shadows of the war on children.

Stefan Molyneux

#7. I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day.

PJ Harvey

#8. You must become your enemy to truly understand him.

Felix O. Hartmann

#9. PTSD in its rawest form is a death sentence which causes many veterans and others to execute themselves in hope to be free.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#10. This is a diseased world in which it is impossible for anyone to be fully human. One way or another, everyone who lives in the modern world is sick or maladjusted.

David T. Dellinger

#11. We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is transformed by an alchemy of the soul into addiction, ulcers, strokes, hatred, even war.

Keith Ablow

#12. Life is a fierce duel with emotions and a slow war with psychology.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#13. It is impossible for me to be all sugar one day and spit venom the next. I'd rather choose the golden mean (which is not so golden), keep my thoughts to myself, and try for once to be just as disdainful to them as they are to me. Oh, if only I could!

Anne Frank

#14. Mum has always been a huge anti-war activist. She would go off to protest and get arrested. I have her passion, but it is not for politics. I am much more interested in psychology. It's more my job and my natural inclination.

Joan Cusack

#15. There is a noticeable element of the pathological in some current leftist critiques, which I tend to attribute to feelings of guilt allied to feelings of impotence. Not an attractive combination, because it results in self-hatred.

Christopher Hitchens

#16. Always do the thing that makes you feel most alive.

Marty Rubin

#17. An arguing couple spiraling into negativity and teetering on the brink of divorce is actually mathematically equivalent to the beginning of a nuclear war.

Hannah Fry

#18. I started to read as obsessively about Star Wars as I once did about Kant - and still do about behavioral economics and behavioral psychology.

Cass Sunstein

#19. Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.

Charles Kettering

#20. Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence.

Stefan Molyneux

#21. Only when we learn to value the differences among us can we achieve the true spirit of humanity.

Charles S. Weinblatt

#22. After the war Avi, by then twenty-two years old, finally decided what he would study: psychology. Had you asked him just then why he picked psychology, "I would say I want to understand the human soul. Not the mind. The soul.

Michael Lewis

#23. If you're a hater we make you scared to show your face. It's called success.

Rick Ross

#24. Grief sounds like a bad thing," I said, frowning. "Why don't you and Naha and Mama get rid of it?" "That would require removing love from existence.

N.K. Jemisin

#25. Psychology is a soft weapon but you can take out
more enemy battalions with leaflets and radio broadcasts than with high explosives.

Nelson DeMille