We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your head that you keep humming all day until you spread it to someone else. Jokes. Urban legends. Crackpot religions. Marxism. No matter how smart we get, there is always this deep irrational part that makes us potential hosts for self-replicating information.
Quotes about crackpot (11 Quotes)
God isn't interested in watching you enact some performance of personality in order to comply with some crackpot notion you have about how a spiritual person looks or behaves. We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, dramatic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality.
The challenge for the governor is, they're all going to be shooting at him. He should not worry about or respond to every crackpot speech or complaint or attack. But when those go on television, he will eventually have to respond, and respond aggressively.
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.
Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.
Any partisan crackpot district attorney who might want to indict a member of our leadership.
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity.
Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social behavior. The crackpot rationalism of free-market economics merely relies on an abstract model of how people 'must' behave.
Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.
The mayor's strong criticism of FEMA and other agencies has earned him more than a few enemies, said Robert Hogan, an associate professor of political science at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Some of his comments have done him a huge disservice, ... Some of his comments come across as a crackpot. To me, he's just exasperated, but he may not be viewed that way in Washington.
There's something endearingly crackpot about this play -- it speaks to us from the century's boom time, when our culture, like the author, was at once naive and inordinately ambitious.