Jon Ronson Quotes

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• Feeling no remorse must be a blessing when all you have are your memories
• I am the neurological opposite of a psychopath, in that I feel anxious almost all the time. It must be great to not constantly feel…
• When I asked Robert Spitzer about the possibility that he'd inadvertently created a world in which ordinary behaviours were being labelled mental disorders, he fell…
• It is slightly chilling to realize there are rational, functional people up there employed to spot, nurture, and exploit those down here among us who…
• Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium.
• Trying to prove you’re not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you’re not mentally ill,’ said Tony.
• Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.
• Capitalism, at its most remorseless, is a physical manifestation of psychopathy.
• It's a lot harder to convince people you're sane than it is to convince them you're crazy.
• You can say anything to David Icke and he will accept it and put it into his ideology.
• Success is always less funny than failure.
• No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really…
• At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.
• But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me.
• Sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they…
• The way I portrayed the people is accurate. Because they're human beings and we have a kind of wonderful capacity to be absurd and ridiculous.
• Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere.
• We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to know them. I…
• Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic…
• There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry…

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