Even in an enlightened democracy, the media have to check themselves to make sure they are not contributing to an unnecessary mass… — Yair Lapid Copy Share Image
Christianity was an epidemic rather than a religion. It appealed to fear, hysteria and ignorance. It spread across the Western world, not… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm getting to the place where I can sort of go through airports now and there's no hysteria. I can go places… — Bo Derek Copy Share Image
To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
The soldier's business is to take life. For that he is paid by the State, eulogized by political charlatans and upheld by… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
During McCarthyism, teachers feared for their jobs if they belonged to a left-wing group. Today teachers fear for their jobs if they… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
“300.14* Hysterical neurosis, dissociative type* In the dissociative type, alterations may occur in the patient's state of consciousness or in his identity,… — American Psychiatric Association Copy Share Image
Getting older is a struggle. I always feel that just under the surface of acceptance and enjoyment of the ageing process is… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
And yes, to answer you seriously, I am beginning to be... well, not bored, but tempted; afraid, but tempted. When you've been… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“The photograph, then, becomes a representation of a representation of a disease that represents. In other words, in order to produce the… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
And I'm hoping that between now and two years from now and four years from now and future election cycles, people have… — Audie Cornish Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
By giving unusual people an easy way to find one another, the Internet has also enabled them to pool rare talents, resources,… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
“I really have discovered something at last. Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I have finally found out.… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Honesty works against you in the entertainment field. I try to be a journalist and a documentarian, but that doesn't mean that… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Wealthy Americans who benefit hugely from a system rigged in their favor react with hysteria to anyone who points out just how… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“they will reflexively demand that somebody do something. The worst among us always see this as an opportunity for political gain. The… — Larry Correia Copy Share Image
I'm an old dog; I don't get too excited. I don't get caught up in all the mass hysteria. — Tim Howard Copy Share Image
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
From the cranberry cancer scare of the 1950s to the Alar-in-apples hysteria of the 1980s, from the "new ice age" of the… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
