Sunday, November 12, 2017 – American Paranoia
As long as anger, paranoia and misinformation drive our political debate, there are unhinged souls among us who will feel justified in turning to violent remedies for imagined threats. ~ David Horsey
Even a paranoid can have enemies. ~ Henry Kissinger
Just because they really are out to get you doesn’t mean you aren’t paranoid. ~ Steven Brust
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret to a happy, successful life of paranoia is to keep careful track of your persecutors. ~ Tyrone Hayes
This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you’ve got it when you can’t think of anything that’s your fault. ~ Robert M. Hutchins
The utter absence of proof for a proposition is proof of a successful conspiracy to destroy all proof. ~ George F. Will
The worm of paranoia begins to eat into even the hardest adversary. ~ David Ignatius
Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then… ~ Philip K. Dick
There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment. ~ Hunter S. Thompson
Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts. ~ William S. Burroughs
People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most. ~ Shannon L. Alder
Paranoia’s the garlic in life’s kitchen, right: you can never have too much. ~ Thomas Pynchon
There is no literature and art without paranoia. Probably there would be even civilization. Paranoia is the world. It is the attempt to make sense of what has not. ~ Thomas Pynchon
There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something. ~ Billy Joel
America is in a state of somnolence. It’s an avoidance of paranoia through ignoring reality. ~ John McAfee
African-Americans have always known that a little bit of paranoia was healthy for us. ~ Cynthia McKinney
Among the Internet’s many gains for humanity, decreasing paranoia has not been one of them. Anything from that lump under your armpit to what’s lurking in the sea – just type it into a search engine and watch your nerves explode. ~ John Niven
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. ~ Andy Grove
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. ~ J. D. Salinger
I’m not a paranoid deranged millionaire. ~ Howard Hughes
Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant – it tends to get worse. ~ Molly Ivins
Guerrilla leaders win wars by being paranoid and ruthless. Once they take power, they are expected to abandon those qualities and embrace opposite ones: tolerance, compromise and humility. Almost none manages to do so. ~ Stephen Kinzer
Paranoid? Probably. But just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean there isn’t an invisible demon about to eat your face. ~ Jim Butcher, Storm Front
My paranoia wasn’t always right, but just to be on the safe side, I never went to sleep with a clown in the room. ~ Mark Henwick
Fear of Vikings builds castles. ~ Charles Manson
The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios -the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about – was still startling. We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preemptive paranoia. ~ Adam Gopnik
We must content ourselves with the mystery, the absurdity, the contradictions, the hostility, but also the generosity that our environment offers us. It’s not much, but it’s always better than the deadly, defeatist certainty of the paranoid. ~ Philip K. Dick
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