Mass Hysteria Quotes

• I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.

  Arthur Miller

  Hysteria, Judging, Crucible

  Arthur Miller (2015). “The Crucible”, p.155, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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.

  Neal Stephenson

  Smart, Urban Legends, Self

  "Snow Crash". Book by Neal Stephenson, 1992.

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• Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!

  Bill Murray

  Dog, Cat, Sacrifice

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• Global warming is the most prominent form of mass hysteria raging across the world today.

  Doug Casey

  Hysteria, Today, World

  Doug Casey (2012). “Totally Incorrect”, p.88, Laissez Faire Books

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• I believe in anything that causes mass hysteria in children.

  Robby Takac

  Children, Believe, Hysteria

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• There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo ... they weren't expecting it, and it was just some weird mist coming from the East out of an amp.

  Jeff Beck

  Music, Hysteria, East

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• The morning we left South Bend, every student and professor was out of bed long before breakfast and marched downtown accompanying the team to the railroad station. It was the first time I'd seen anything like this mass hysteria generated on the Notre Dame campus over a football game.

  Knute Rockne

  Football, Morning, Team

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• Vidal gives the impression of believing that the entire heterosexual edifice - registry offices, 'Romeo and Juliet,' the disposable diaper - is just a sorry story of self-hypnosis and mass hysteria: a hoax, a racket, or sheer propaganda.

  Martin Amis

  Sorry, Believe, Hypnosis

  Martin Amis (2014). “The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000”, p.277, Vintage

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