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In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble. — Jon Ronson

In fact, ever since I first learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing it everywhere. — Jon Ronson

At what point does querying diagnostic criteria tip over into mocking the unusual symptoms of people in very real distress? — Jon Ronson

Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white! — Jon Ronson

The idea of Donald Trump and Alex Jones and Roger Stone and Stephen Bannon having power over us - that is terrifying. — Jon Ronson

Maybe it was the trying so hard to be normal that was making everyone so afraid they were going crazy. — Jon Ronson

That's the psychopath: somebody who doesn't understand what's going on emotionally, but understands that something important has happened." But — Jon Ronson

which is why she tried to join the RAF, so she could obtain a socially respectable opportunity to gratify her homicidal urges." "So — Jon Ronson

I hadn't realized what a collage of mental disorders my whole life has been, — Jon Ronson

Bryna is convinced her children are bipolar, and I wasn't going to swoop into a stranger's home for an afternoon and tell them all they were normal. — Jon Ronson

When I was writing my biography of LeBon," Bob Nye told me, "he seemed to me the biggest asshole in the whole of creation. — Jon Ronson

Jon Ronson makes me laugh. I've read all of his books. — Bill Hader

TV is just troubled people being booed these days. — Jon Ronson

The way I portrayed the people is accurate. Because they're human beings and we have a kind of wonderful capacity to be absurd and ridiculous. — Jon Ronson

I would also say you can never reduce any person to a diagnostic label. — Jon Ronson

A crowd is only impressed by excessive sentiments. Exaggerate, affirm, resort to repetition, and never attempt to prove anything by reasoning. — Jon Ronson

We see ourselves as nonconformist, but I think all of this is creating a more conformist, conservative age. — Jon Ronson

But at the core of psychopathy is a lack of moral restraint. — Jon Ronson

Twitter wanted to become a more egalitarian justice system, but instead it became a draconian one. — Jon Ronson

Trump might have appointed a less-eerie chief to replace Manafort. But instead he doubled-down, choosing the even eerier Stephen Bannon. Bannon — Jon Ronson

Friends are the fruitcake of life - some nutty, some soaked in alcohol, some sweet. — Jon Ronson

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. — Jon Ronson

Google has the informal corporate motto of "don't be evil", but they make money when anything happens online, even the bad stuff.' In — Jon Ronson

Once labeled schizophrenic the pseudopatient was stuck with that label. - DAVID ROSENHAN, — Jon Ronson

Shame internalized can lead to agony. — Jon Ronson

It's not a good idea to define the boundaries of normality by tearing apart people who are outside of it. — Jon Ronson

The UFO community?" I said. "Why would government spies want to infiltrate that?" "Oh, Jon," said Steven. "Don't be naive. — Jon Ronson

What we do, when we fuck up, we don't lose our job. We lose our vocation. — Jon Ronson

deciding that instant judgment was a more heroic stance than curiosity. When — Jon Ronson

What we believe is constantly reinforced by people who believe the same thing. — Jon Ronson

the Bush family's proclivity for mock human sacrifice. What — Jon Ronson

I wondered what sort of woman loved a man like that. — Jon Ronson

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

Aplomb. I had managed to portray myself as a good Jew and, — Jon Ronson

The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche. — Jon Ronson

Success is always less funny than failure. — Jon Ronson

We aren't all good people just trying to do good. Some of us are psychopaths. And psychopaths are to blame for this brutal, mis-shapen society. — Jon Ronson

As somebody back then wrote, "Facebook is where you lie to your friends, Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers. — Jon Ronson

I have panicked unnecessarily in all four corners of the globe. — Jon Ronson

It was, she said, the way the book had revealed an inherent narcissism in its recipients. — Jon Ronson

brilliant and audacious as ever - a beat poet of paranoia. He — Jon Ronson

the madness business is filled with people like Tony, reduced to their maddest edges. — Jon Ronson

And a surfeit of checklists, coupled with unscrupulous drug reps, is, Gary said, a dreadful combination. There — Jon Ronson

His idea was that humans totally lose control of their behavior in a crowd. — Jon Ronson

If anyone should change their behaviour, I thought, it ought to be those doing the shaming. — Jon Ronson

But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan. — Jon Ronson

My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now. — Jon Ronson

Feeling no remorse must be a blessing when all you have are your memories — Jon Ronson

If I had a spouse and two kids to support I certainly would not be telling 'jokes' like he was doing at a conference. — Jon Ronson

Twitter hates tabloids, but Twitter is constantly acting like a tabloid, repeating the mistakes of the things we're hoping to better. — Jon Ronson

We are defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside it. — Jon Ronson

Please ejaculate", I silently urged the man, "so I can go to sleep". (In this way I imagine I was like millions of women before me — Jon Ronson

She summarized: "So. Don't get shitfaced, don't fist her ass, enjoy. — Jon Ronson

What a brilliant cover story. In a success-obsessed society like this one, what's the best rock to hide something under? It's the rock called failure. — Jon Ronson

I thought about my own over-anxious brain, my own sort of madness. Was it a more powerful engine in my life than my rationality? — Jon Ronson

Others took exception to being forced to wear little-girl-type dresses (a psychopath-devised punishment for noncooperation in the program). — Jon Ronson

[W]e need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position. — Jon Ronson

There's an old Internet adage that as soon as you compare something to the Nazis you lose the argument. — Jon Ronson

I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me. — Jonathan King

if you get between the lawyer and his goal, you're going to get hurt. — Jon Ronson

He said ... Everyone's attention span is so short. They'll be mad about something new today. — Jon Ronson

Most goat-related military activity is still highly classified. — Jon Ronson

You combine insecurity and ambition, and you get an inability to say no to things. — Jon Ronson

maybe the American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all life a mental disorder. I — Jon Ronson

I'm not what you'd call a fearless type of person. — Jon Ronson

Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing. — Jon Ronson

Scattered throughout the week were a surprising number of speeches about how we may be killed by undocumented immigrants driving drunk. I — Jon Ronson

Lacking in conscience and empathy, they take what they want and do as they please, violating social norms and expectations without guilt or remorse. — Jon Ronson

So, yeah, the psychopath might cry when his dog dies and you think that's misplaced because he doesn't cry when his daughter dies." I — Jon Ronson

after his lawyer argued that given the passage of time, he wouldn't have a fair hearing. He became a pariah in the offender-profiling world. Now, — Jon Ronson

You remain with the person you've just been yelling at until the resentments fizzle. That's how wounds heal. — Jon Ronson

You can say anything to David Icke and he will accept it and put it into his ideology. — Jon Ronson

But they're being labeled bipolar. That's an enormous label that's going to stay with you for the rest of your life. — Jon Ronson

Trying to prove you're not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you're not mentally ill,' said Tony. — Jon Ronson

Oh, you know what bloggers are like, they write and write and write. I don't know why, because they're not being paid. — Jon Ronson

Bad liars always think they're good at it. (quoting Michael Moynihan) — Jon Ronson

Shall we go?' he murmured, perhaps regretting his decision to show me his army of plastic cartoon figurines. — Jon Ronson

We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland. — Jon Ronson

Ask a victim to look at the positive things and she'll say, 'I can't. My eyes are swollen, — Jon Ronson

what's the point in threatening them with imprisonment if they break the terms of their parole? The threat has no meaning for them." He — Jon Ronson

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere. — Jon Ronson

frightening person pretending to be normal. Things — Jon Ronson

The NSA is looking for terrorists. They're not getting psychosexual pleasure out of their schadenfreude about you. - — Jon Ronson

Their puffed-out cheeks are beetroot-red, making them resemble sweaty, meat-smeared squirrels. — Jon Ronson

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? — Jon Ronson

We don't want obvious exploitation. We want smoke-and-mirrors exploitation. — Jon Ronson

I'd been beguiled by the new technology - a toddler crawling toward a gun. — Jon Ronson

Shameworthiness lies in the space between who we are and how we present ourselves to the world — Jon Ronson

Whereas shame let out can lead to freedom, or at least to a funny story, which is a sort of freedom too. — Jon Ronson

I wasn't in any way a kind of soothsayer or not surprised when Sept. 11 happened. I was absolutely shocked. — Jon Ronson

Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium. — Jon Ronson

Be patient and curious instead of instantly judgemental. — Jon Ronson

complicated human behavior was increasingly getting labeled a mental disorder. — Jon Ronson

this was a man palpably simulating crying, which made the moment at once awkward, surreal, and quite disturbing. Our — Jon Ronson

We're living in post-nuance online times. — Jon Ronson

His name was Roger Stone. And he was the man who first introduced Alex Jones to his close friend Donald Trump. * — Jon Ronson

For all our mythologizing, the margins can be painful and some people are there because they have no choice. — Jon Ronson

We should be like dogs. — Jon Ronson

the suspect, Colin Stagg, must be the person who introduces every single element. — Jon Ronson

As soon as the victim steps out of the pact by refusing to feel ashamed," he said, "the whole thing crumbles. — Jon Ronson