What is the best Jon Ronson quote?

"Suddenly, madness was everywhere, and I was determined to learn about the impact it had on the way society evolves. I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity?" - Jon Ronson

What are some Jon Ronson quotes?

"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." "At the end of our conversation she (Martha Stout) turned to address you, the reader. She said if you're beginning to feel worried that you may be a psychopath, if you recognize some of those traits in yourself, if you're feeling a creeping anxiety about it, that means you are not one." - Jon Ronson

What are some short Jon Ronson quotes?

"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?" "Oh, you know what bloggers are like, they write and write and write. I don't know why, because they're not being paid." "Most goat-related military activity is still highly classified." - Jon Ronson

How many quotes did Jon Ronson wrote?

The author Jon Ronson wrote around 177 of quotes.

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Facebook is where you lie to your friends, Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers.

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The NSA is looking for terrorists. They’re not getting psychosexual pleasure out of their schadenfreude about you.”—

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with social media we’ve created a stage for constant artificial high dramas. Every day a new person emerges as a magnificent hero or a sickening villain.

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Vas caminando por la calle, y se produce un accidente. Un coche ha atropellado a un niño. La gente se aglomera alrededor. Te acercas, el niño yace en el suelo y hay sangre por todas partes. Te manchas un poco los zapatos, bajas la vista y dices: “Oh, mierda.” Observas al niño con cierto interés, pero la imagen no te repele ni te horroriza. Solo despierta tu interés. Entonces miras a la madre y quedas fascinada al ver cómo exterioriza sus sentimientos, suelta alaridos y hace toda clase de cosas distintas. Al cabo de unos minutos, das media vuelta y regresas a tu casa. Entras en el baño e intentas imitar las expresiones faciales de la madre. Eso es un psicópata: alguien que no entiende lo que ocurre a nivel emocional, pero que entiende que ha sucedido algo importante.»

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She summarized: “So. Don’t get shitfaced, don’t fist her ass, enjoy.

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I wondered what sort of woman loved a man like that.

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His idea was that humans totally lose control of their behavior in a crowd.

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Bilderberg

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if a person was overcome by a violent madness he’d involuntarily start to sound like someone from Louisiana.

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...shameworthiness lies in the space between who we are and how we present ourselves to the world

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Whereas shame let out can lead to freedom, or at least to a funny story, which is a sort of freedom too.

if you’re beginning to feel worried that you may be a psychopath, if you recognize some of those traits in yourself, if you’re feeling a creeping anxiety about it, that means you are not one.

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I suppose, when shamings are delivered as remotely administered drone strikes, nobody needs to think about how ferocious our collective power might be. The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.

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character. And I’ll tell you, it outweighed anything I’d ever done.” “What had she done?” I ask. “Shoplifting,” says Tam. There is a silence. “People have their own little guilt trips,” says Tam. “They look around. ‘Who’s a beast? Who’s a pedo?’ Now it’s on my record for the rest of my life. If I want to go into business, I have to state that I was done for lewd and libidinous. Gross indecency. People think, ‘Oh my God! He must have been crawling about in a nursery.’” “Can I ask about the boys who live here?” I say. “What do they do?” “They clean up,” he replies, a little sharply. “They feed the dogs. They take them for walks. They help me with my property business. They are eighteen years of age, and I don’t have a relationship with them. You can interview them until the cows come home. Maybe I just like nice people floating about. We don’t have orgies. There’s no swinging from the chandeliers. Even if there was,” he adds, “it would be legal.” Tam believes he was targeted because of his fame, because he was a celebrity Svengali. He blames his arrest, then, on the pop business. And now he is out of it. He has become a property millionaire, with forty flats in Edinburgh’s

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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 twelve different ones.

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aplomb. I had managed to portray myself as a good Jew and,

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A tiny little baby!' says Tam. 'People look at me like I'm an animal. People who don't know me judge me. I always remember going up to visit someone in prison, and this woman was sitting there. She was looking at me, growling a bit, and I could imagine what she was thinking: "There's a pedophile!" Anyway, I later discovered about her character. And I'll tell you, it outweighed anything I'd ever done.''What had she done?' I ask.'Shoplifting,' says Tam. There is silence.

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The quest for seizing that amygdala moment, those crushing seconds of unbearable, incapacitating shock, seizing these moments and not letting them go, dragging them out for as long as is operationally necessary, that, said Sid, is the aim of the Bucha effect.

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We should be like dogs.

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with social media, we’ve created a stage for constant artificial high drama. Every day a new person emerges as a magnificent hero or a sickening villain. It’s all very sweeping, and not the way we actually are as people.

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our imagination is so limited, our arsenal of potential responses so narrow, that the only thing anyone can think to do with an inappropriate shamer like Adria is to punish her with a shaming. All of the shamers had themselves come from a place of shame, and it really felt parochial and self-defeating to instinctively slap shame onto shame like a clumsy builder covering cracks.

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Let’s face it,” my Deep Throat had said to me, “nobody rules the world anymore. The markets rule the world. Maybe that’s why your conspiracy theorists make up all those crazy things. Because the truth is so much more frightening. Nobody rules the world. Nobody controls anything.

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we tend to love nothing more than to declare other people insane.

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Bad liars always think they're good at it. (quoting Michael Moynihan)

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A terrified-looking bystander, a nerdy man in a sweater, calls the police and stammers into the phone: 'A huge group of people are fighting and there's pepper spray and superheroes and I don't know.

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

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«He perdido el buen nombre, la parte inmortal de mi ser, y solo me queda lo más bestial.»

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be patient and curious instead of instantly judgemental.

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He said ... "Everyone's attention span is so short. They'll be mad about something new today.

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But amongst a group who hadn’t read it an opinion was beginning to form,

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The justice system in the West has a lot of problems,' Poe said, 'but at least there are rules. You have basic rights as the accused. You have your day in court. You don't have any rights when you're accused on the Internet. And the consequences are worse. It's worldwide forever.

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(On the communist regime of Ceaușescu)"Romania," said Eugene, "was twenty million people living inside the imagination of a madman.

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we have to think about what level of mercilessness we feel comfortable with.

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In fact, ever since I first learned about confirmation bias, I’ve been seeing it everywhere.

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He said, 'You have to understand, I'm an academic. I'm not trained in dealing with masses of people. I found out through the school of hard knocks that it is better not to deal with masses of people. It's not that they don't deserve the information but they really react in very strange ways. They get panicky and excited, or over-excited, and it is so easy for academics to forget that. We're trained in math. We're trained in science. We're not trained in the masses.'He paused.'The public is extremely wild,' he said, 'uncontrollably wild.'Then he shrugged his shoulders.'You have to understand,' he said, 'I'm an academic.

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[…] we will turn this place around, and a new civilization can be born that does not know boundary lines but knows better how to live in the garden and knows that we are one thought away from paradise.

Serial killers ruin families.” Bob shrugged. “Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.

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But surely stock-market psychopaths can’t be as bad as serial-killer psychopaths,’ I said. ‘Serial killers ruin families,’ shrugged Bob. ‘Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.

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...nie ma żadnych dowodów na to, że celem naszego istnienia na tej planecie jest bycie wybitnie szczęśliwym czy też szczególnie normalnym. (...) nasze zmartwienia i dziwactwa, nasze lęki i wewnętrzne przymusy, krótko mówiąc, wszystkie te najbardziej niemodne aspekty naszych osobowości całkiem często prowadzą nas do interesujących rzeczy.

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The justice system in the West has a lot of problems,” Poe said, “but at least there are rules. You have basic rights as the accused. You have your day in court. You don’t have any rights when you’re accused on the Internet. And the consequences are worse. It’s worldwide forever.

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It's not a remarkable note except for one thing. The typeface Tony used to print it is the exact typeface Kubrick used for the posters and title sequences of 'Eyes Wide Shut' and '2001'.'It's Futura Extra Bold,' explains Tony. 'It was Stanley's favorite typeface. It's sans serif. He liked Helvetica and Univers too. Clean and elegant.''Is this the kind of thing you and Kubrick used to talk about?' I asked.'God, yes,' says Tony. 'Sometimes late into the night. I was always trying to persuade him to turn away from them. But he was wedded to his sans serifs.

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As I glanced at the phraseology of the research report, dull and unfathomable to outsiders like me, I thought that if you have the ambition to become a villain, the first thing you should do is learn to be impenetrable. Don't act like Blofeld--monocled and ostentatious. We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about boring, impenetrable people. ...If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.

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A life had been ruined. What was it for: just some social media drama? I think our natural disposition as humans is to plod along until we get old and stop. But with social media, we’ve created a stage for constant artificial high drama.

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This is bizarre,” Dan said. “I find it really strange—the way you’re approaching this. You must be one of the very few people who have chosen to come on Twitter and use their own name as their Twitter name. Who does that? And that’s why I’m a little suspicious of your motives, Jon. That’s why I say I think you’re using it as brand management.

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Fiction seemed all about harnessing infinity. In fiction, when you walk into a restaurant and you sit down, there’s nobody there and the restaurant doesn’t exist. The restaurant is a horrific, never-ending nothingness. So you make scattershot decisions about what the restaurant might look like and the person you might be sitting with.

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Shame internalized can lead to agony.

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What we do, when we fuck up, we don’t lose our job. We lose our vocation.

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I was much crazier than I had imagined. Or maybe it was a bad idea to read DSM-IV when you're not a trained professional. Or maybe the American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all life a mental disorder.

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We don’t want obvious exploitation. We want smoke-and-mirrors exploitation.

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One man was saying, ‘It cost me a new SUV for my wife,’” Andrew said. “Another said, ‘It cost me a cruise to the Bahamas and a new kitchen.’ Everyone was laughing.

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