Quotes with paranoid

  • This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.

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  • C. Wright Mills An expensive arms race, under cover of the military metaphysic, and in a paranoid atmosphere of fright, is an economically attractive business. To many utopian capitalists, it has become the Business Way of American Life.
    The Causes of World War Three (1960)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Henry Kissinger Even a paranoid can have enemies.
    Henry Kissinger
    American politician (1923 - 2023)
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  • C. Wright Mills For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end,...Such men as these are crackpot realists: in the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own.
    The Power Elite (1956)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Bill Bryson I don't care how paranoid and irrational this makes me sound, but I know for a fact that the people of Paris want me dead.
    Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Bill Viola One of the most important things for me in terms of my working method is doubt. I get very insecure about my ideas. And I don't say 'insecure' in kind of a paranoid way. I mean just: 'Are they good enough?' 'Is this the right thing to do?' I really beat myself up over that.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Andrew Grove Only the paranoid survive.
    Andrew Grove
    Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer and author (1936 - 2016)
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  • D. J. Hicks Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too.
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  • J. G. Ballard The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime.
    A User's Guide to the Millennium (1996)
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • William S. Burroughs They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Salman Rushdie This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.
    NY Times 2-11-2001 Yes, This Is About Islam
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Bonnie Jo Campbell We have a shotgun we inherited from my father-in-law, a paranoid Englishman living in Texas. I have a .22 Marlin rifle, similar to the one Annie Oakley had, and my husband has a .357 Magnum pistol. All those are locked up tight, of course. We have a couple of pellet guns that get more use than the real guns.
    Bonnie Jo Campbell
    American writer
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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