255 Quotes by Jon Ronson

And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things. He.

I didn’t realize he was a drunk driver,′ I said. ‘The other superheroes inferred it was just a regular, random guy you were trying to force a taco onto. But still’ – I indicate the nearby crack dealers – ’the Taco Incident surely demonstrates how things can inadvertently spiral.

If you couldn’t kill your adversaries, or keep them imprisoned for ever, there was surely only one option left in the Colonel Alexander canon: you change their minds.

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

The powerful, crazy, cruel people were now us. It felt like we were soldiers making war on other people’s flaws, and there had suddenly been an escalation in hostilities.

In a crowd we are “microbes” infecting everyone around us, a “grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will.” We are impulsive, irritable, irrational:.

The great thing about social media was how it gave a voice to voiceless people.

Maybe there's two types of people in the world: those people who favor humans over ideology, and those people who favor ideology over humans.

Shaming is powerful and useful. I'm living in New York, and my instinct is that, after the Black Lives Matter protests, which were organized on social media, the chance of there being another Eric Garner, choked to death in New York by an NYPD officer, has diminished.