#suspiciousness — Public Fediverse posts
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Rabid suspicion has nothing in it of skepticism. The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 184 (1955)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/17386/
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Rabid suspicion has nothing in it of skepticism. The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 184 (1955)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/17386/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #conspiracytheory #evil #paranoia #skepticism #suspicion #suspiciousness
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The #Paranoid Style in American #Politics ( Harper’s 1964)
American politics has often been an arena for angry minds. In recent years we have seen angry minds at work mainly among extreme right-wingers who have now demonstrated in the #Goldwater movement how much political leverage can be got out of the animosities & passions of a small minority… I call it the paranoid style … heated #exaggeration, #suspiciousness , & #conspiratorial #fantasy that I have in mind
#magahttps://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/