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Quotes About Paranoia

Nadie confía en nadie, todo el mundo espera alguna bajeza del prójimo.
~ Orhan Pamuk
If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.
~ Orson Scott Card
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. Confucius This is a major problem in America, where greed, power, and money are the highest value. This creates a paranoia atmosphere.I mention this all the time, but first time I have ever seen it.
~ Confucius
It's that undefined something we're really afraid of-the flicker of movement we don't quite catch out of the corner of our eye, the bad dream we can't quite remember when we wake up, the sound of a door opening downstairs we thought we heard. And worst of all, the things we're not sure even happened, the things that we might just have imagined, that might mean we're going mad, all those nameless, nebulous things we can't quite put our finger on and can only guess at.
~ Connie Willis
There are other good guys. You said so. Yes. So where are they? They're hiding. Who are they hiding from? From each other.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I'm sure I've had my phone tapped for years, I don't think it's a crime against humanity they just ought to quit doing it, god damn it.
~ Cornel West
The persistence of poverty generates levels of despair that deepen social conflict; the escalation of paranoia produces levels of distrust that reinforce cultural division.
~ Cornel West
Sometimes Dustfinger thought Basta's constant fear of curses and sudden disaster probably arose from his terror of the darkness within himself, which made him assume that the rest of the world must be exactly the same.
~ Cornelia Funke
It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
~ Cory Doctorow
So far, I've managed to spend more time free than behind bars. Paranoia is my friend.
~ Cory Doctorow
You hear about the guy who took too much blotter acid and had a lifelong trip?" he asked me once. "The cops were outside his door, coming to bust him, so he ate his whole stash. Now he thinks he's a glass of orange juice. He's in the nuthatch, bug-eyed and shivering, terrified someone's coming to drink him.
~ Craig Davidson
Wodensfang, you're paranoid, said Hiccup, yawning. It's only paranoia, whispered the Wodensfang, if things aren't out to get you...
~ Cressida Cowell
It's only paranoia, whispered the Wodensfang, If things aren't out to get you...
~ Cressida Cowell
In times of terror, when everyone is something of a conspirator, everyone will be in a situation where he has to play detective.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
~ Walter Isaacson
Only the paranoid survive.
~ Walter Isaacson
Grove's mantra was "Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive." Noyce and Moore may not have been paranoid, but they were never complacent.
~ Walter Isaacson
El éxito trae complacencia. La complacencia trae fracaso. Solo sobrevive el paranoico.
~ Walter Isaacson
A man who is already insane was frightening enough, but when he goes crazy...
~ Walter Mosley
People. You're not crazy if there really are robot insects listening to every word you say. Someone said, I fucking told you
~ Warren Ellis
Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just a form of love.
~ Charles Manson
I think I have an extremely aggravated case of paranoia
~ Charles Mingus
The wicked flee when none pursueth.
~ Charles Portis
jittery, neurotic parents don't need any more false scares to piss their pants over. They're already raising their twatty little offspring like mollycoddled prisoners: banned from playing outdoors in case a paedophile ring burrows through the pavement and eats them, locked indoors with nothing but anti-bacterial plasma screens for company, ferried to and from school in spluttering rollcaged tanks. . . Christ, half these kids would view choking to death as a release.
~ Charlie Brooker