Displacement Psychology Quotes & Sayings

I do not imply that this philosophy of land was always clear to me. It is rather the end result of a life journey. — Aldo Leopold

In fact, the anti-Muslim stance of much of Hindu nationalism can be construed as partly a displaced hostility against the colonial power which could not be expressed directly because of the new legitimacy created within Hinduism for this power. Such a dynamic would seem to roughly duplicate the displacement of Oedipal hostilities in the authoritarian personality. — Ashis Nandy

I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks. — Henry David Thoreau

[Marriage is] like signing a 356-page contract without knowing what's in it. — Ken Blanchard

I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling. — Kara Walker

As he left, he saw the streets were just as deserted and quiet as before, but now he knew it was an illusion. There were ninjas, darker than a starless night, watching their territory and his every move from the rooftops high above. — Anam Iqbal

So are you going to tell me why you're running around my home at midnight and yelling my name? Don't get me wrong, I'm flattered it's my name you're screaming, it's just now how I imagined you doing it" Asher — Randi Cooley Wilson

Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it. — Jean Kerr

Hofstadter shows how the political psychology of paranoid politics works: (1) posit, as Senator Joseph McCarthy did, "a great conspiracy on a scale so immense as to dwarf any previous such venture in the history of man"; (2) declare its infiltration of the government to be massive and pernicious; and (3) insist that time is running out, and without immediate action their takeover will be complete. Paranoid politics is thus a psychological disposition - projecting one's problem onto the fiendish machinations of others, so as both to uphold one's own purity and goodness and simultaneously to identify the source of the problem. As with many projects that rely on psychological displacement, the groups often produce the very thing they most fear; they become the enemy they are seeking to destroy: — Michael S. Kimmel

I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process. — Diana Nyad

Outside the hospital, a young girl who was selling small bouquets of daffodils, their green stems tied with lavender ribbons. I watched as my mother bought out the girl's whole stock. Nurse Eliot, who remembered my mother from eight years ago volunteered to help her when she saw her comng down the hall, her arms full of flowers. She rounded up extra water pitchers from a supply closet and together, she and my mother filled them with water and placed the flowers around my father's room while he slept. Nurse Eliot thought that if loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman, my mother had grown even more beautiful.
(The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold) — Alice Sebold

Thus he always wrote using a pencil with a long, sharp but soft lead, so he couldn't here his words as they formed on the page. — Jacqueline Winspear

You can choose what you write but you can't choose what you make live. — Flannery O'Connor

I should have known better than to rely on pills. You can't buy unconsciousness quite so cheaply. — Margaret Atwood

We need to start talking about inequality again; we need to start talking about the inequities and unfairnesses and the injustices of an excessively divided society, divided by wealth, by opportunity, by outcome, by assets and so forth. — Tony Judt