255 Quotes by Jon Ronson

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

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

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.

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

I am the neurological opposite of a psychopath, in that I feel anxious almost all the time. It must be great to not constantly feel like you’ve got someone living inside your face, shooting you with a mini Taser.

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

I feel that a really public shaming or humiliation is a conflict between the person trying to write his own narrative and society trying to write a different narrative for that person. One story tries to overwrite the other and so to survive you have to own your story.

Glenn Beck did not fall into line. He told his listeners that Trump was a “dictator in the making.

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I’ve started seeing it everywhere.