#delusion

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission. ↗

#delusion #extremism #fanaticism #fanatics #guerrilla-decontextualism

I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties. ↗

— Alexander Alekhine

#bad #combination #conjure #could #dangerous

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! ↗

— Charles Dickens

#back #childhood #days #delusions #happy

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#give #liberties #never #never give up #people

There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#among #because #being #being rich #believe

When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#always #avoid #back #bed #better

When all else fails there's always delusion. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#delusion #else #fails #when all else fails

I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it. ↗

— Randy Jackson

#delusions #had #i #my own #own

But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#big #big government #delusion #desire #government

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. ↗