Quotes About Paranoia

The acid test is that all paranoids and fundamentalists lack a sense of humor, for humor is a chaos flux and flexibility, of ambiguity and multi-dimensionality, and that kind of erotic liveliness is precisely what the fundamentalist is trying to eliminate in holding rigidly to doctrine.

many individuals going beyond the 'normal' limits of fragmentation are classified as paranoid, schizoid, psychotic, etc.

Humans are evolutionarily designed to be paranoid, and they believe in God because they are paranoid.

God, I am freaking out. Maybe he doesn't know. Maybe I just look guilty of something and he's picking up on that.

A good leader shares information, even if they don't know the whole story. Without any information, people create their own, which causes fear and paranoia.

Twitter is not a good place for people who feel they're being followed.

The bad times I can handle. It's the good times that drive me crazy. When is the other shoe going going to drop?

We are under [government's] control, and if people don't realize that, they haven't looked around. And if they're not paranoid, they haven't thought about it.

No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.

Being on President Nixon's enemies list was the highest single honor I've ever received. Who knows who's listening to me now and what government list I'm on?

I think we're on too many government watch lists. We'd better let this one go.

Let me say this: I'm paranoid of the government. They've lost my trust. They've lied to me so many times that I don't know what to believe from them anymore.

I have hired a bodyguard, on the recommendation of my friends and the government. It's outrageous, having to live like this.

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.

I read the first few, " said Jackaby. "I've instructed my duck to just file the rest directly under P. I left it to him to decide if that was for politics or paranoia.

I check every can of Barbasol I buy for dinosaur embryos. I haven't found any yet, as evidenced by the lack of T-Rex screams in my apartment.

Paranoid means you are aware of 10% of the problem

...Right now there's a pair of bad cops on their way out here to shoot me.""You don't know that.""Yeah, you're right, " Stranahan said. "They're probably just collecting Toys for Tots. Now go.

If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination.

I'll probably be popped off by some loony.

I have a limited amount of faith in humans as a species, and have little problem imagining someone that petty and insane." Jackson

I have a limited amount of faith in humans as a species, and have little problem imagining someone that petty and insane.

My mom was paranoid about my safety.

At one apex is a paranoid lunatic, at another is a lonesome outcast: Kurt Gödel, the greatest logician of many centuries; and Alan Turing, the brilliant code breaker and mathematician.