Quotes About Dysfunction

Federal and provincial politicians were about as functional and helpful as Peter, Chris, Stewie and Brian Griffin drinking ipecac together on Family Guy.

'The Glass Castle' by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family.

Obama was elected on a slogan of hope and change because both were in short supply: the military exhausted by two wars, the banks failing their public trust, the U.S. Congress a comedy of dysfunction, and a federal government that seemed designed to idle on the sidelines.

When the proximate community is dysfunctional, alienated individuals need some other way to channel their need to belong.4 Populist nationalism offers one such appealing vision of a larger purposeful imagined community—whether it is white majoritarianism in Europe and the United States, the Islamic Turkish nationalism of Turkey's Justice and Development Party, or the Hindu nationalism of India's Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

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we convince ourselves that we're getting affection when we're not. This is common with families and communities where abuse is prevalent. We don't always want to see that our actions (or those of our leaders or family members) are unkind and potentially abusive. We want so badly to be cared for and connected to someone that, rather than facing the pain and fear, we adjust our perception of love to fit the dysfunctional patterns.

Boundary confusion is one of the foundation blocks upon which a dysfunctional, codependent personality is developed.

far as I knew. Never thought one way or the other when Mama used to take her "naps" in the middle of Christmas or Thanksgiving dinner. Never said to myself, Mama's not napping, she's passed-out drunk. Never even questioned

What's going on? Not much. My mother's falling to pieces, my sister is a selfish bitch and my father's committing slow suicide for sake of his kingdom. That's all.

Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough!

I've never had siblings, I didn't grow up in a big family; it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved.

Her daddy drank all day and mommy did drugs, never wanted to play or give kisses and hugs. She'd watch the TV and sit there on the couch, while her mom fell asleep and her daddy went out.

My mother was cancer. She slowly destroyed everything around her. She produced two killers; me and my brother Joe.

My dad used to flush my mother's head down the toilet. I was so screwed up.

Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction.

People are getting too far away from the real-world. Politics is just ridiculous, it's totally dysfunctional.

At the extremes of the debate, liberals don't want to see the dysfunctional family, and conservatives want to see nothing else. Depending on the ideology, destructive parenting is either not a cause or the only cause of poverty. Neither stereotype is correct. In

So much of great American drama has been about a certain kind of dysfunctional family, and maybe my interests are in the kind of strange dysfunction that exists even among deeply functional families.

Humanity is reaching the end of the evolutionary stage of ego. The closer we get to the end, the more dysfunctional humanity becomes.

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

Let's form a committee tasked with exploring why committees are so ineffective. Then we'll stand-back and watch it argue and self-destruct.

You men deserve whatever rabbit-boiling scenario dating crazy women gets you.

Any human organization whatsoever is always in danger of being hijacked by the sociopaths, because the sociopaths are always with us; the organization will always have a tipping-point where the toxic people start to outnumber or outmaneuver the nontoxic

Humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die. … If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.