Pathological Quotes

The TV is an out, an excuse for not having eye contact or for not having to come up with something interesting to say. Is it pathological? Yes. Is it sad? Yes. But pathology and sadness are part of 20th century American life. - Robert Thompson

The so-called pathological liar has learned from an early age that they get punished more often for telling the truth than they do for lying. They get so accustomed to devious behavior that they lie without much thought or emotion. - John Rooney

The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect. - Rene Dubos

The love of money as a possession - as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life - will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propens. - John Maynard Keynes

The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind. - Phillip Adams

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. - Albert Einstein

Since the Freudian revolution, and especially since the Second World War, the secret formula has been this: If you want to debase what a person is doing, call his act psychopathological and call him mentally ill; if you want to exalt what a person is. - Thomas S. Szasz

She's given multiple versions of what happened Sept. 2, 2003... She either has difficulty recording things in her mind and relating them back to law enforcement and friends or she's a pathological liar. - Roger Simpson

Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so great, until the poor whites -- rather than fighting for jobs or education -- fight to remain pink and fight to remain white. And therefore they cannot see an alliance with people that they feel to be inherently inferior. - Jesse Jackson