#psycho

Every year the hunters shot cows and horses and family pets and each other. And unbelievably, they sometimes shot themselves, perhaps in a psychotic episode where they mistook themselves for dinner ↗

— Louise Penny

#hunters #psychotic #shot #family

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#acting #commonplace #crowd #each #far

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#disguise #entirely #faculty #man #moral

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent. ↗

— Jerome Lawrence

#builds #castle #collects #lives #man

Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone else. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

#believe #cause #either #else #normal

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

#artificially #bred #country #economy #fear

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#artificially #bred #country #economy #fear

Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#always #behaviour #beliefs #changing #feelings

I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister. ↗

— John Mayer

#i #may #never #psychologically #sinister

I get to actually experience what it would be like to be a psycho, which is not a fun one, or to be a cowboy, or to be a weird character of some sort. For me, it suits me. It suits my personality. I'm an emotional kind of person anyway. ↗

— Josh Holloway

#anyway #character #cowboy #emotional #experience