Vernon Johnson quotes

It is a myth that alcoholics have some spontaneous insight and then seek treatment. Victims of this disease do not submit to treatment out of spontaneous insight - typically, in our experience they come to their recognition scenes through a buildup of crises that crash through their almost impenetrable defense systems. They are forced to seek help; and when they don't, they perish miserably.
-- Vernon Johnson

#Defense #Disease #Recognition

Be ashamed to die until you have done something good for mankind.
-- Vernon Johnson

#Military #Done #Ashamed

They said you had to take what the defense gave you. No, we are going to take what we want.

Unprecedented warnings by officials most closely linked with nuclear arms negotiations and defense strategy indicate that we are running out of time. If we fail to act soon, the scars of a major nuclear disaster will mark our immediate and distant future.

The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.

Life is an incurable disease.

There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

The only logical solution to solve the Palestinian issue is to hold free elections with the participation of Palestinians inside and outside the occupied territories and a recognition of the nation's legitimacy