"The idea of the paranoid style as a force in politics would have little contemporary relevance or historical value if it were applied only to men with profoundly disturbed minds. It is the use of paranoid modes of expression by more or less normal people that makes the phenomenon significant."

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Source : "The Paranoid Style in American Politics". Harper's Magazine, November 1964.

Richard Hofstadter

#Men Quotes #Expression Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.”
“The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.”
“Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating.”

Source : "Joel Salatin: Folks, This Ain’t Normal". Interview with Kristin Wartman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2011.
“As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.”
“The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided, and controlled by those with superior authority.”
“I'd say that it's often true that people are attracted to each other immediately and everything lines up, but it's just as true for those relationships to end up a disaster. But people don't think of that as false love-at-first-sight. They highlight the examples that worked rather than the ones that failed.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
“Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.”
“I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does.”

Source : Virgilia Peterson (1961). “A Matter of Life and Death”, Bantam Books

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