58 Mind-Blowing Quotes By Jon Ronson That Will Keep You Clear-Headed
I have panicked unnecessarily in all four corners of the globe.
I wondered if sometimes the difference between a psychopath in Broadmoor and a psychopath on Wall Street was the luck of being born into a stable, rich family.
Friends are the fruitcake of life - some nutty, some soaked in alcohol, some sweet.
But we know that people are complicated and have a mixture of flaws and talents and sins. So why do we pretend that we don’t?
Most goat-related military activity is still highly classified.
Oh, you know what bloggers are like, they write and write and write. I don't know why, because they're not being paid.
We are defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside it.
We aren't all good people just trying to do good. Some of us are psychopaths. And psychopaths are to blame for this brutal, mis-shapen society.
The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.
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 lies sanity it is human nature to veer towards the madness end.
Feeling no remorse must be a blessing when all you have are your memories
We’re creating a culture where people feel constantly surveilled, where people are afraid to be themselves.
We see ourselves as nonconformist, but I think all of this is creating a more conformist, conservative age.
There is nothing I dislike more in the world than people who care more about ideology than they do about people.
We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland.
I couldn't see where the collection of Burger King figurines fit in, but I supposed there was no reason why psychopaths shouldn't have unrelated hobbies.
Trying to prove you’re not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you’re not mentally ill,’ said Tony.
I suppose that when shamings are delivered like remotely administered drone strikes nobody needs to think about how ferocious our collective power might be.
If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.
 don’t try to open lines of communication with total strangers by writing them a series of disjointed, weird, cryptic messages. ){kind=small}
People who are normal (i.e., sane, sensible) don’t try to open lines of communication with total strangers by writing them a series of disjointed, weird, cryptic messages.
I’ve always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn’t? What if it is built on insanity?
Ask a victim to look at the positive things and she’ll say, ‘I can’t. My eyes are swollen,
Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium.
Serial killers ruin families,’ shrugged Bob. ‘Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.
As soon as the victim steps out of the pact by refusing to feel ashamed,” he said, “the whole thing crumbles.
Shall we go?' he murmured, perhaps regretting his decision to show me his army of plastic cartoon figurines.
Wow," I say, politely, but I don't feel it. I'm like a sociopath when it comes to expensive cars. I feel no emotion.
![[W]e need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/jon-ronson-28743.jpg)
[W]e need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position.
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 failure.
I closed the manual. “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 twelve different ones.
