Top 148 Pathological Quotes & Sayings

Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

Jim Comey is either dense or he's pathological.

Once the pathological low self-esteem goes, that's when things go downhill.

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

A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!

Hollywood's persistent hostility to religious values is not just peculiar, it is positively pathological.

Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.

Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.

As long as I have people's attention, I can't stop. You can't put the public on hold, because they might not be there when you get back. I have a pathological fear of stopping.

Even the worst comic is at least somewhat entertaining, if only in a pathological way, for five minutes.

I have never said authoritarians are pathological

Love of privacy - perhaps because of the increasing exactions of society - has become in many people almost pathological.

27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers

I cannot understand how something as ubiquitous as war can simply be dismissed as pathological. It is not clear to me that it is an unspeakable evil. If it is, I need proof of it.

Alcoholism is a well documented pathological reaction to unresolved grief.

Now is the time for everyone who believes in the rule of reason to speak up against pathological science and its purveyors.

I've gone to great lengths not to be a guru. I think the notion of guruhood is utterly pathological, and I couldn't live that way. I am just a person.

The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about.

I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.

I am such a notorious hermit - almost pathological. And, I'm not a hoarder. But that's just a symptom of things that I do feel.

So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional.

I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm.

Let me be very blunt: the heterosexual transmission of AIDS is, in Africa, a function of truly pathological promiscuity. So this is really a violence issue - not the same violence we deal with in Boston, where teenagers stab and shoot each other, but the violence of African men who are killing themselves, and killing African women and children, with pathological promiscuity.

I have a pathological fear of confrontation. I'm working on that.

Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological

Academia is ruled by a pathological herd mentality. Stick out, and be prepared to get ostracized.

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

I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.

A point must be repeated: only the pathological weakness of the financial memory...allows us to believe that the modern experience of....debt...is in any way a new phenomenon.

...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome.

I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.

In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.

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

The refusal to snitch out of a pathological hatred for police is nothing new.

I'm not a narcissist, but I definitely have gotten enough explosive narcissistic shrapnel from my father. I'm sort of wired that way, but I don't feel that I'm pathological, so all I can pull from is my own existence and my knowledge.

We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue.

The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition.

Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static.

...a distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings.

Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.

Pathological states are the consequence of several determinate factors acting simultaneously...The manifestations of any given agent differ profoundly from one person to another. ...Each noxious agent can express itself by a great variety of different pathological states. ...Different agents can elicit similar reactions. ...The total environment and the (interior medium) constitute a multifactorial system.

And I, love, am a pathological liar.

Lilly says I have an overactive imagination and a pathological need to invent drama in my life.

It does not seem possible to think of oneself as normal without thinking that some other kind of person is pathological.

Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed such pathological upbeatness.

I have a pathological fear of getting my picture taken.

Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.

It's very possible that I could look like a kleptomaniac and a pathological liar and that's why I keep getting hired.

Gratuitous cruelty borders on the pathological, psychotic and that becomes uninteresting because there is no choice.

Pathological Stubbornness and Irrational Optimism – Lessons I’ve learned on my entrepreneurial journey

It would be pathological narcissism to assume that that person had to live how I live.

Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.

I have a deep and pathological obsession with trees and plants.

Addiction is a relationship, a pathological relationship in which... obsession replaces people.

Scott Peterson was a pathological liar to me - nothing he said was the truth.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.