Schizophrenia Quotes

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
George Orwell

Age, Politics, Political

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
Thomas Szasz

God, Talk, Talks

I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.
David Icke

Human, Thought, Police

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.
Marshall McLuhan

May, Necessary, Literacy

Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it's always in the form of someone homeless. 'Look at that guy - he's crazy. He looks dangerous.' Well, he's on the streets because of mental illness. He probably had a job and a home.
Eric McCormack

Home, Crazy, Live

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.
R. D. Laing

Cannot, Despair, Understood

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
Oscar Levant

Alone, Dining, Beats

There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
R. D. Laing

Political, Fact, Social

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
Margaret Atwood

United, Paranoid, National

The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.
James D. Watson

Success, Science, Human

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
E. L. Doctorow

Writing, Acceptable, Socially

In many ways, I think that, while we've been remarkably violent in our media, there's been a real schizophrenia. In private, on the Internet, and on public-affairs shows or talk radio, we're way more explicit than we've ever been.
Ivan Reitman

Real, Talk, While

The whole schizophrenia angle interested me. When I first started working on it, I thought I would play up that angle more than I ended up doing. The religious aspect of the story was also a draw.
Chester Brown

Thought, Play, Working

I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.
Darrell Hammond

Everything, Disorder, Multiple

Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.
Vittorio Gassman

Character, Others, Acting

Schizophrenia demons live in my head.
Wesley Willis

Live, Head, Demons

I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.
Alexis Korner

Music, Society, Legal

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