4,465 Quotes About Psychology

When a person feels powerless in regard to controlling his life, he can defend against the discomfort of such an experience by asserting control over someone else.

They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix.

It's always easier to learn something than to use what you've learned. . . . You're alone when you're learning. But you always use it on other people. It's different when there are other people involved.

I was a protestor. I was such a protestor that I regularly protested things that might have been good for me.

It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to show to his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except to himself alone, hidden only God knows where.

We'll erase those who want to use us for our family prestige......and erase those girls who try to apply their patronizing psychology theories on us......and those stupid adults who only judge us by our outward appearances....We'll erase them all from our consciousness.

Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

The drive for power is even less logical than the sex urge . . . and stronger.

Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters.