255 Quotes by 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.

Google has the informal corporate motto of “don’t be evil”, but they make money when anything happens online, even the bad stuff.’ In.

It may be somewhat paradoxical to refer to shame as a ‘feeling’, for while shame is initially painful, constant shaming leads to a deadening of feeling. Shame, like cold, is, in essence, the absence of warmth. And when it reaches overwhelming intensity, shame is experienced, like cold, as a feeling of numbness and deadness.

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

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

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

I’d been beguiled by the new technology – a toddler crawling toward a gun.

There is no evidence that we’ve been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal.

The UFO community?” I said. “Why would government spies want to infiltrate that?” “Oh, Jon,” said Steven. “Don’t be naive.