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Robert Jay Lifton

"Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category."

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"Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category."

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Robert Jay Lifton
"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."

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Robert Jay Lifton
"I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there."

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Robert Jay Lifton
"It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I've never really thanked them for it, because I haven't exactly been pro-military in my work."

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Robert Jay Lifton
"I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military."

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Robert Jay Lifton
"Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category."

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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 of historical event, as it impacted on them or as they helped to create it."

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Robert Jay Lifton
"When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War."

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Robert Jay Lifton
"Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created."

Time

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Robert Jay Lifton
"But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death."

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Robert Jay Lifton
"It was because of my deep concerns about nuclear weapons that I went to Hiroshima. And then I was astounded in Hiroshima to find that nobody had really studied it."

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Aberjhani

"Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock."

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Aberjhani

"The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks."

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Aberjhani

"I don't see on television the kind of blood and guts and body parts blown apart that maybe you're referring to, but it certainly is in that BATMAN feature and I found it very offensive."

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Aberjhani

"I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be."

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Aberjhani

"What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?"

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Aberjhani

"The humble and meek are thirsting for blood."

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Aberjhani

"Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to."

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Aberjhani

"To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood."

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Aberjhani

"The masses don't shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals."

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Aberjhani

"Boxing is show-business with blood."

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