#psycho

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#barriers #coercion #given #history #human

We like reactions - a reaction is walking out on us, a reaction is throwing tomatoes at the stage, that's a healthy psychological reaction. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#like #out #psychological #reaction #reactions

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too. ↗

— James Dean

#disproportion #fault #i #i think #kids

I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#connections #hard #i #i think #legal

People can learn to be more optimistic by acting as if they were more optimistic. ↗

— Suzanne C. Segerstrom

#psychology #attitude

But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think we're just about all agreed that Lincoln and Speed did not have a homosexual relationship. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#agreed #carefully #did #evidence #go

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#anyone #comfort #console #contrary #destiny

Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real. ↗

— Colin Firth

#almost #because #choices #comedy #errors

I don't believe in psychology. ↗

— Bobby Fischer

#i #psychology

I took up French boys and wine and I studied psychology. ↗

— Joely Fisher

#i #psychology #studied #took #up