There is also this great sense of triumphalism, that just as we defeated the Soviet Union, we can do this. And out of this sense of desperation and pathological religion, there develops an all-encompassing drive to harm and hurt, without regard for the innocent and the uninvolved, which was the case in New York.
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.
I’ve made my life’s work spotting assholes. And you know, I think it’s harder now than ever before because there’s so many socially acceptable ways to exhibit a pathological lack of empathy.
. . . a distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings.
. . . Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own. Susan Sontag warned against overburdening an illness with metaphors. But this is not a metaphor. Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.
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.
Hollywood's persistent hostility to religious values is not just peculiar, it is positively pathological.
Once the pathological low self-esteem goes, that's when things go downhill.
And I, love, am a pathological liar.
What worries me is that we are increasingly enmeshed in incompetent systems, that is, systems that exhibit pathological behaviour but cant fix themselves.
Lilly says I have an overactive imagination and a pathological need to invent drama in my life.
Pathological Stubbornness and Irrational Optimism – Lessons I’ve learned on my entrepreneurial journey
I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm.
Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological
Now, as Mandelbrot points out,. . . Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking in imagination, but Nature was not. The same pathological structures that the mathematicians invented to break loose from 19th-century naturalism turn out to be inherent in familiar objects all around us.
I have a pathological fear of getting my picture taken.
The hatred Americans have for their own government is pathological. . . at one level it is simply thwarted greed: since our religion is making a buck, giving a part of that buck to any government is an act against nature.
