"Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds"

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Source : Charles Mackay (1996). “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds and ConfusiÃ3n de Confusiones”, John Wiley & Sons

Charles Mackay

#Ignorance Quotes #Crowds Quotes #Madness Quotes

“Adventure begins with you, personally. It is in the way you look at things. It is the mental stance you take as you face your day. It is finding magic in things. It is talking with people and discovering their inner goodness. It is the thrill of feeling a part of the life around you. The attitude of adventure will open things up for you. The world will become alive with new zest and meaning. You'll become more aware of the beauty everywhere. Nothing will seem unimportant. Everything will be revealed as having pattern and purpose.”
“I couldn't believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal.”
“A seven-year-old girl can take only so many walks with her grandfather.”
“Every being ought to do that which is according to its constitution; and all other things have been constituted for the sake of the superior, but the rational for the sake of one another.”
“What to me is anathema - a corpse-like, outmoded hangover - is for photography to be a bad excuse for another medium. ... Is not photography good enough in itself, that it must be made to look like something else, supposedly superior?”
“She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself”
“Vote to stand tall against terrorists ; receive Social Security privatization . Vote to strike a blow against elitism; receive a social order in which wealth is more concentrated than ever before in our lifetimes , in which workers have been stripped of power and CEOs are rewarded in a manner beyond imagining.”
“I get excited when fantasy football season's coming. This guy gets excited when war season's coming.”

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