All war is a symptom of man`s failure as a thinking animal.
- John SteinbeckVierde man, De (1983) (["The Fourth Man") has to do with my vision of religion. In my opinion, Christianity is nothing more than one of many interpretations of reality, neither more nor less. Ideally, it would be nice to believe that there is a God somewhere out there, but it looks to me as if the whole Christian religion is a major symptom of schizophrenia in half the world`s population: civilizations scrambling to rationalize their chaotic existence. Subsequently, Christianity has a tendency to look like magic or the occult. And I liked that ambiguity, because I wanted my audience to take something home with them. I wanted them to wonder about what religion really is. Remember that Christianity is a religion grounded in one of the most violent acts of murder, the crucifixion. Otherwise, religion wouldn`t have had any kind of impact. With regards to the irony of the violence, much of that probably comes from my childhood experiences during and immediately following the Second World War. In fact, if it hadn`t been for the German occupation and then the American occupation, I would have never been a filmmaker.
- Paul VerhoevenA competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
- Robert A. HeinleinDrugs, were a symptom - they weren`t the cause of anything.
- Wayne KramerListen, I don`t know. It`s all theory. If I knew what I was talking about, I would be running the studio. That`s why they keep changing the heads of the studios: Nobody knows. Nobody knows. But I`m sure it has affected the quality of movies. Being sensitive to the problem of women is just another symptom of the quality of movies: I don`t think you can do anything that`s very sensitive. Everything`s sort of broad strokes and big gestures -- adventure things that boys, guys -- want to see.
- Teri GarrThe spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.
- Ayn RandA bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
- Nathaniel HawthorneWe go in and care for the patient offering aggressive pain control, aggressive symptom control.
- John GradyThe second stage set in ten or fifteen days after the bombing. Its first symptom was falling hair. Diarrhea and fever, which in some cases went as high as 106, came next.
- John HerseyAnother unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
- Edith WhartonThe habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.
- African-American ProverbA feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.
- Alessandro ProfumoAmong the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.
- Alexandra StarrWar is the symptom, not the disease.
- Allie WoodsAnd it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
- Andrew CortyI watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.
- Andrew DuffIt is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of the crisis.
- Andrew LindseyWar is the symptom, not the disease.
- L. M. Heroux