Psychopaths Quotes by Jon Ronson

9 Psychopaths quotes by Jon Ronson

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Jon Ronson’s nine reflections on Psychopaths blend his trademark narrative flair with incisive commentary. The concise collection offers a quick, engaging glimpse into his exploration of these complex characters.

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“We aren't all good people just trying to do good. Some of us are psychopaths . And psychopaths are to blame for…

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“I vaguely remembered hearing psychologists say there was a preponderance of psychopaths at the top—in the corporate and political worlds—a clinical absence…

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“I remembered those psychologists who said psychopaths made the world go around. They meant it: society was, they claimed, an expression of…

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“Why is the world so unfair? Why all that savage economic injustice, those brutal wars, the everyday corporate cruelty? The answer: psychopaths.…

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“Psychopaths [make] the world go around...society [is] an expression of that particular sort of madness...I've always believed society to be a fundamentally…

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“I couldn't see where the collection of Burger King figurines fit in, but I supposed there was no reason why psychopaths shouldn't…

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“He said I really had to be careful. Psychopaths are truly dangerous, he said. And they’re often the people you least expect…

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“You're standing on an escalator and you're watching the people go past on the opposite escalator. If you could climb inside their…

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“Justice departments and parole boards all over the world have accepted his contention that psychopaths are quite simply incurable and everyone should…

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Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with…

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“I wonder if I’ve got any of the 374 mental disorders,” I thought. I opened the manual again. And I instantly diagnosed myself with…

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Trying to prove you’re not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you’re not mentally ill,’ said Tony.

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“It may very well be that the frotteurist is a helpless victim in the clutches of his obsession, but it’s equally possible that he’s…

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“We are defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside of it.”

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My worryingly paradoxical thought process could be summarized thus: Thank God I don't believe in the secret rulers of the world. Imagine what the…

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Friends are the fruitcake of life - some nutty, some soaked in alcohol, some sweet.

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“The consensus from the beginning was that only 1 percent of humans had it, but the chaos they caused was so far-reaching it could…

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“That's an incredibly depressing thought," I said "that if you're in a room and at one end lies madness and at the other end…

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The world outside Twitter was great. I read books. I reconnected with people I knew from real life and met them for drinks in…

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“What a brilliant cover story. In a success-obsessed society like this one, what's the best rock to hide something under? It's the rock called…

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Guy Savelli's role in the War on Terror began when half-a-dozen strangers, within days of one another, contacted him via e-mail and telephone in…

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My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now.

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“It is an awful lot harder, Tony told me, to convince people you’re sane than it is to convince them you’re crazy. “I”

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It is slightly chilling to realize there are rational, functional people up there employed to spot, nurture, and exploit those down here among us…

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