Quote
I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.
Quote
I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.
More from Robert Jay Lifton
“What I found was when I started my first study, and then in subsequent studies, is here you have people under some kind of duress, or I chose to study them because they represented some kind...”
0 likes
“The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicin...”
0 likes
“And I thought about the psychic numbing involved in strategic projections of using hydrogen bombs or nuclear weapons of any kind. And I also thought about ways in which all of us undergo wha...”
0 likes
Discover More
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
200 likes
“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me...”
172 likes
“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.”
150 likes
“So many books, so little time.”
142 likes
“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
112 likes