Robert Jay Lifton

“And I thought about the psychic numbing involved in strategic projections of using hydrogen bombs or nuclear weapons of any kind. And I also thought about ways in which all of us undergo what could be called the numbing of everyday life.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.”