List of Karl A. Menninger Quotes

Police Are Not All Bad Guys. Nobody Is All Bad Guys.

Chess Is A More Highly Symbolic Game, But The Aggressions Are Therefore Even More Frankly Represented In The Play. It Probably Began As A War Game; That Is, The Representation Of A Miniature Battle Between The Forces Of Two Kingdoms

To Those Who Would Use Intelligence In The Battle Against Death - To Strengthen The Will To Live Against The Wish To Die, And To Replace With Love The Blind Compulsion To Give Hostages To Hatred As The Price Of Living.

Set Up As An Ideal The Facing Of Reality As Honestly And As Cheerfully As Possible.

Psychoanalysis Has Changed American Psychology From A Diagnostic To A Therapeutic Science, Not Because So Many Patients Are Cured By The Psychoanalytic Technique, But Because Of The New Understanding Of Psychiatric Patients It Has Given Us, And The New And Different Concept Of Illness And Health.

It Was His Optimism That Freud Bequeathed To America And It Was The Optimism Of Our Youthfulness, Our Freedom From The Sterner, Sadder Tradition Of Europe Which Enabled Us To Seize His Gift.

[on The Voice Of The Intelligence] It Is Drowned Out By The Roar Of Fear.

We Need Criminals To Identify Ourselves With, To Secretly Envy And To Stoutly Punish. They Do For Us The Forbidden, Illegal Things We Wish To Do.

Unrest Of Spirit Is A Mark Of Life.

Neurotic Means He Is Not As Sensible As I Am, And Psychotic Means He's Even Worse Than My Brother-in-law.

We Have Come To See That Just As The Child Must Learn To Love Wisely, So He Must Learn To Hate Expeditiously, To Turn Destructive Tendencies Away From Himself Toward Enemies That Actually Threaten Him Rather Than Toward The Friendly And The Defenseless, The More Usual Victims Of Destructive Energy.

The Friends Who Listen To Us Are The Ones We Move Toward, And We Want To Sit In Their Radius.