A collection of quotes and sayings by Jon Ronson on time, doing, stories, paranoia, nightmares, klan, writing, mysteries, happy, fear, thought, tyranny, success and failure.
58 Mind-Blowing Quotes By Jon Ronson That Will Keep You Clear-Headed
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Jon Ronson is an illustrious Welsh screenwriter, journalist, radio presenter, author and documentary filmmaker. He is considered to be a gonzo journalist who becomes a faux-naif character in his stories. Some of his most famous works include ‘The Psychopath Test’, ‘The Men Who Stare At Goats’, ‘So Your Have Been Publicly Shamed’, ‘Lost At The Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries’ and various others. He has gained recognition of his informal but dubious inquisition of science and controversially edging politics. His thoughts, writings and works have been published in ‘Time Out’ and ‘The Guardian, City Life’. His works also include two documentary series for ‘Channel 4’ and a number of documentary films for ‘BBC Television’. Read through the quotable quotes and sayings by Jon Ronson that will give you insights about the multi-faceted star. Presenting quotes and thoughts by Jon Ronson on relationship, weird, people, funny, journalism, moment, surprised, life, philosophy, end, accept, possible etc.
I have panicked unnecessarily in all four corners of the globe.
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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.
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.
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.
I suppose that when shamings are delivered like remotely administered drone strikes nobody needs to think about how ferocious our collective power might be.
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.
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I’ve always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn’t? What if it is built on insanity?
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Ask a victim to look at the positive things and she’ll say, ‘I can’t. My eyes are swollen,
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Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium.
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Serial killers ruin families,’ shrugged Bob. ‘Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.
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As soon as the victim steps out of the pact by refusing to feel ashamed,” he said, “the whole thing crumbles.
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Shall we go?' he murmured, perhaps regretting his decision to show me his army of plastic cartoon figurines.
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.
I suspect it was probably unusual to suffer from both Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Malingering, unproductiveness tending to make me feel anxious, but there it was. I had both.
But 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.
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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 simply a bored creep looking for a cheap thrill.
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If anyone should change their behaviour, I thought, it ought to be those doing the shaming.
TV is just troubled people being booed these days.
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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.
If you couldn't kill your adversaries, or keep them imprisoned for ever, there was surely only one option left in the Colonel Alexander canon: you change their minds.
For the first hundred years, as far as I could tell, all that happened in America was that various people named Nathaniel had purchased land near rivers.
I’d been beguiled by the new technology—a toddler crawling toward a gun.
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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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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.
What we believe is constantly reinforced by people who believe the same thing.
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Their puffed-out cheeks are beetroot-red, making them resemble sweaty, meat-smeared squirrels.
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Goebbels thinks that no one since the Frenchman LeBon has understood the mind of the masses as well as he,” wrote Goebbels’s aide Rudolf Semmler in his wartime diary.
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He had twenty followers. Some were people I knew from real life, who were probably wondering why I’d suddenly become so passionate about fusion cooking and candid about dreaming about cock.
When shamings are delivered like 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.
The powerful, crazy, cruel people were now us. It felt like we were soldiers making war on other people’s flaws, and there had suddenly been an escalation in hostilities.
In the middle sat Brad Blanton. He was a large man. His shirt, open to his chest, was yellow-white, like his hair. With his sunburned face, he looked like a red ball abandoned in dirty snow.
In a crowd we are “microbes” infecting everyone around us, a “grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will.” We are impulsive, irritable, irrational:
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Social scientists have written papers analyzing Eshelman’s every move in there, including the strange detail that the more brutally he behaved, the more American South his accent sounded.
 don’t try to open lines of communication with total strangers by writing them a series of disjointed, weird, cryptic messages. )
