Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Robert M. Lindner

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Last updated on November 10, 2024.

Robert M. Lindner was an American author and psychologist, best known as the author of the 1944 book Rebel Without A Cause: The Hypnoanalysis Of A Criminal Psychopath, from which the title of Nicholas Ray's 1955 film was adapted. His book described a psychopath as someone who is "incapable of exertions for the sake of others". Lindner's arguments on gambling psychology are well regarded and have been noted as "definitive statements" by the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

American - Author | May 14, 1914 - 1956

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It is in solitude that the works of hand, heart and mind are always conceived, and in solitude that individuality must be affirmed.

Robert M. Lindner

We should not wonder at the success of communism, for so much of its success is rather that of religion.

Robert M. Lindner

Mass Man, the universal psychopath, is born when the individual ego is weakened to the point at which it loses separate identity and is forced, for security, to merge with the mass.

Robert M. Lindner

In the crowd, herd, or gang, it is a mass-mind that operates-which is to say, a mind without subtlety, a mind without compassion, a mind, finally, uncivilized.

Robert M. Lindner

Non-conformism is the major, perhaps the only, sin of our time.

Robert M. Lindner

As a dimension of man, rebellion actually defines him.

Robert M. Lindner

How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error.

Robert M. Lindner

Only by being permitted to experience the consequences of his actions will the child acquire a sense of responsibility; and within the limits marked by the demands of his safety this must be done.

Robert M. Lindner

Schools vast factories for the manufacture of robots.

Robert M. Lindner

Adjustment, that synonym for conformity that comes more easily to the modern tongue, is the theme of our swan song, the piper's tune to which we dance on the brink of the abyss, the siren's melody that destroys our senses and paralyzes our wills.

Robert M. Lindner

Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.

Robert M. Lindner

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Robert M. Lindner

It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Robert M. Lindner