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"18 Jon Ronson Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 10 May 1967 | Journalist |

There is nothing I dislike more in the world than people who care more about ideology than they do about people.

Dislike World Ideology People
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Success is always less funny than failure.

Success Funny Failure
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Friends are the fruitcake of life - some nutty, some soaked in alcohol, some sweet.

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

Defining Boundaries Normality People
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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.

Powerful People War Hostilities
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What we believe is constantly reinforced by people who believe the same thing.

Believe Reinforced People
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You combine insecurity and ambition, and you get an inability to say no to things.

Insecurity Ambition Inability Say no
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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?

People Flaws Talents Sin
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Feeling no remorse must be a blessing when all you have are your memories

Feeling Remorse Blessing Memories
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If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.

Want True Power Boring
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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?

Society Rational thing Built Insanity
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We need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position.

Think Vengeance Anger Position
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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.

Adversaries Option Change Mind
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Facebook is where you lie to your friends, Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers.

Facebook Friends Twitter Strangers
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Shame internalized can lead to agony.

Shame Lead Agony
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Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.

Political Religious Economies Society
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We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland.

Creating World Survive Bland
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Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing.

Solve Mystery Enjoy Writing
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Jon Ronson Quotes & Sayings