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. (Jon Ronson)
Friends are the fruitcake of life - some nutty, some soaked in alcohol, some sweet. View quote
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The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche. View quote
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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? View quote
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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? View quote
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We are defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside it. View quote
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There is nothing I dislike more in the world than people who care more about ideology than they do about people. View quote
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Feeling no remorse must be a blessing when all you have are your memories. View quote
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But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me. View quote
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We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland. View quote
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‎I have panicked unnecessarily in all four corners of the globe. (Jon Ronson)
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 or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it's rewarded. View quote
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You can say anything to David Icke and he will accept it and put it into his ideology. View quote
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Success is always less funny than failure. View quote
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I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance. View quote
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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. View quote
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At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that. View quote
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I wasn't in any way a kind of soothsayer or not surprised when Sept. 11 happened. I was absolutely shocked. View quote
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I have thought sometimes that the sanest people, the people who are just very balanced, very happy, are probably lower achieving than other people. My kind of irrationality happens to be fear or anxiety. View quote
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Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible. View quote
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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 childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S. (Jon Ronson)
Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing. View quote
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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 person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that. View quote
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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 put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them. View quote
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Twitter wanted to become a more egalitarian justice system, but instead it became a draconian one. View quote
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