Quotes for All
Marijuana gives rise to insanity — not in its users but in the policies directed against it. A nation that sentences the possessor of a single joint to life imprisonment without parole but sets a murderer free after perhaps six years is in the grips of a deep psychosis. Eric Schlosser
Not me, said Orion cheerily. I’m just a teenager with hormones running wild. And may I say ,young fairy lady, they’re running wild in your direction. Holly lifted her visor and looked the hormonal teenager in the eye. This had better not be a game, Artemis. If you do not have some serious psychosis, you … Read more
Oh, I’m crazy all right. I do have plenty of psychoses. Multiple personality, delusional dementia, OCD. I’ve got them all, but most of all, I’m crazy about you. Eoin Colfer
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there’s a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character. Eddie Izzard
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. Douglas MacArthur
I spent months searching for some secret code before I realized that common sense has nothing to do with it. Hysteria, psychosis, torture, depression: I was told that if something is unpleasant it’s probably feminine. This encouraged me, but the theory was blown by such masculine nouns as murder, toothache, and rollerblade. I have no … Read more
I was never the sort of child who believed in monsters under the bed or vampires, or who needed a night-light in his bedroom; on the contrary, my father…once laughingly told my mother that he thought I might suffer from a type of benign psychosis called antiparanoia, in which I seemed to believe that I … Read more
Homosexuals die decades younger than heterosexuals, from a host of maladies. They suffer mental problems ranging from depression to psychosis, and have suicide rates many times that of heterosexuals. David Duke
Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I’ve discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, … Read more
I have to admit that ‘Psychology Today’ was one of the first magazines I started reading, back when I was 13 or 14, because I was the kind of kid that was curious about the mysterious human mind – I hoped to learn about telekenisis, multiple personalities, psychosis, and various other cool and terrible things … Read more