214 Quotes About Paranoia

The acid test is that all paranoids and fundamentalists lack a sense of humor, for humor is a chaos flux and flexibility, of ambiguity and multi-dimensionality, and that kind of erotic liveliness is precisely what the fundamentalist is trying to eliminate in holding rigidly to doctrine.

Mubarak was so paranoid that anyone he perceived as competent became a threat to him.

His mistake was to think that, by seeing objectively, he was seeing the street in its entirety. What he didn't see -- what he completely missed -- was the strangest and most remarkable sight in the whole of Lough Street: an unshaven, wild-eyed man sitting in a parked van, staring at an empty house through binoculars and furiously taking notes.

I have often felt that I am being watched. That my life is being witnessed by unseen forces, that adjustments are made as these forces see fit, to thwart me, to humiliate me.

But paranoia dies hard in this city.

Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed—no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull.

It feels good pulling on these muscles, it feels better than worrying about who is watching.

Ante todo, las fantasías paranoides son una respuesta al sentimiento de que estamos siendo tratados con indiferencia.

It will strike all countries. The global economic crisis could plunge 500 million people into poverty, so stated in a position paper by the UN (172).