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{{quote|''"Done the things I've done, there's no such thing as paranoia."''|'''Eliot, ''[[Leverage]]'''''}}
 
{{quote|Done the things I've done, there's no such thing as paranoia.
{{quote|''"Paranoid is what they call people who '''imagine''' threats against their life. I '''have''' threats against my life."''|'''Garak, ''[[Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]'', "For the Cause"'''}}
|'''Eliot''', ''[[Leverage]]''}}
 
{{quote|''"Every time I think I'm paranoid enough, my enemies find a new way to show me different."''|'''Crimson''', '''''[[City of Heroes]]'''''}}
|'''Crimson''', ''[[City of Heroes]]''}}
 
{{quote|''"It's one thing to believe that everyone is out to get you. Quite another when it's actually true."''|'''''[[The Zombie Survival Guide]]'''''}}
|''[[The Zombie Survival Guide]]''}}
 
{{quote|''"A paranoiac, my friend... is a person who has gone crazy in the most intelligent, well-informed way, the world being what it is."''|'''[[Kurt Vonnegut]], ''Look At The Birdie'''''}}
|'''[[Kurt Vonnegut]]''', ''Look At The Birdie''}}
 
{{quote|''"A paranoiac is a guy who knows a ''little'' of what's going on."''|'''William S. Burroughs'''}}
|'''[[William S. Burroughs]]'''}}
 
{{quote|Paranoid is what they call people who '''imagine''' threats against their life. I '''have''' threats against my life.
{{quote|''"No matter how paranoid you are, you're not paranoid enough."''|'''[[Doomed By Canon|Suzanne Modeski]]''', ''[[The X-Files]]''}}
|'''Garak''', ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'', "For the Cause"}}
{{quote|'''Odo''': Aren't you being a little paranoid?
'''Weyoun''': Of course I'm paranoid! Everyone is trying to kill me!
|''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'', "Treachery, Faith, and the Great River"}}
 
{{quote|It's not paranoia when [[A Nazi by Any Other Name|they]] really are out to get you.
{{quote|'''Odo''': Aren't you being a little paranoid?<br />
|'''Martin Willett'''}}
'''Weyoun''': Of course I'm paranoid! Everyone is trying to kill me!|'''''[[Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]'', "Treachery, Faith, and the Great River"'''}}
 
{{quote|Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you
{{quote|''"It's not paranoia when [[A Nazi By Any Other Name|they]] really are out to get you."''|'''Martin Willett'''}}
|'''[[Nirvana]]''', [[Intentionally Awkward Title|"Territorial Pissings"]] (from ''Nevermind'', 1991)}}
 
{{quote|No matter how paranoid you are, you're not paranoid enough.
{{quote|''"Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you"''|'''[[Nirvana]]''', [[Intentionally Awkward Title|"Territorial Pissings"]] (from ''Nevermind'', 1991)}}
|'''[[Doomed by Canon|Suzanne Modeski]]''', ''[[The X-Files]]''}}
{{quote|Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
|'''Agent Mulder''', ''[[The X-Files]]'', episode 2x23 "Soft Light" (aired March 31, 1995)}}
 
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|''[[Animorphs]]'', "The Predator"}}
 
{{quote|Remember: A Paranoid is simply someone in possession of all the facts.
{{quote|'''Marco:''' I live in a paranoid world. But just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean I don't have enemies. I have ''real'' enemies. Enemies that would freeze your blood if you only knew.|'''''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]'', "The Predator"'''}}
|'''Spider Jerusalem''', ''[[Transmetropolitan]]'' }}
 
{{quote|79. Fear everything, it's safer.
{{quote|''"Remember: A Paranoid is simply someone in possession of all the facts."'' |'''Spider Jerusalem, ''[[Transmetropolitan]]''''' }}
|''[http://monsterlibrarian.com/horrorsurvive.htm Horror Survival List]'' }}
 
{{quote|[[Catch Phrase|Constant Vigilance!]]
{{quote|''They are used to ease irrational fears (which is silly; in Alpha Complex there '''are''' no irrational fears.'')|'''''[[Paranoia]]'''''}}
|'''"Mad-Eye" Moody''' {{spoiler|impersonator!}}, ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (novel)|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]''}}
 
{{quote|Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn't. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. Wizards ''know'' it.
{{quote|''79. Fear everything, it's safer.''|'''''[http://monsterlibrarian.com/horrorsurvive.htm Horror Survival List]'''''}}
|'''[[Terry Pratchett]]'''|''[[Sourcery]]'' }}
 
{{quote|Paranoia: You only have to be right once for it to be worthwhile.
{{quote|''"[[Catch Phrase|Constant Vigilance!]]"''|'''"Mad-Eye" Moody {{spoiler|impersonator!}}, ''[[Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire]]'''''}}
|'''Anonymous'''}}
 
{{quote|How can I be paranoid...when the paranoid mother-fuckers who are making me paranoid are really out there?
{{quote|''Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn't. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. Wizards ''know'' it.''|'''[[Terry Pratchett]], ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Sourcery|Sourcery]]''''' }}
|'''[[David Cross]]'''}}
 
{{quote|They are used to ease irrational fears (which is silly; in Alpha Complex there '''are''' no irrational fears.)
{{quote|''"Paranoia: You only have to be right once for it to be worthwhile."''|'''Anonymous'''}}
|''[[Paranoia]]''}}
 
{{quote|{{color|lightgrey|''"HowI canknow I be'm paranoid...when, thebut paranoidam mother-fuckers who are making meI paranoid are really out thereenough?"''|'''[[David Cross]]'''}}
|''GURPS Illuminati'', Written on the cover in dark grey text on black background.}}
 
{{quote|"A suspicious mind is a healthy mind."
|''[[Dark Heresy]]'', inscription within the Bastion Serpentis - base of the Tyrantine Cabal }}
 
{{quote|But something about the whole situation still struck me as fundamentally wrong, and if I've learned one thing in my century or more of attempting to evade all the trouble the galaxy keeps throwing at me, it's to trust that nagging sense of paranoia.
{{quote|{{color|lightgrey|''I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?''}}|'''''GURPS Illuminati''''', Written on the cover in dark grey text on black background.}}
|''[[Ciaphas Cain]]''}}
 
{{quote|''"Paranoia is just reality on a finer scale."''|'''Philo Gant''', '''''[[Strange Days]]''''' }}
|'''Philo Gant''', ''[[Strange Days]]'' }}
 
{{quote|''You know what, Grady? Some people think I'm [[Crazy Prepared|overly prepared]], paranoid, maybe even [[Crazy Awesome|a little bit crazy]]... but they never met any pre-Cambrian lifeforms, did they?''|'''''[[Crazy Survivalist|Burt Gummer]], ''[[Tremors]]'''''}}
|'''[[Crazy Survivalist|Burt Gummer]]''', ''[[Tremors]]''}}
 
{{quote|''"Why?" Gareth bleated. "What's wrong? For three days you've been running away from your own shadows..."''<br />
''"That's right," John agreed, and there was a dangerous edge to his quiet voice. "You ever think what might happen to you if your own shadow caught you? Now ride -- and ride silent."''|'''''Dragon's Bane'''''}}
|'''Dragon's Bane'''}}
 
{{quote|'''Phoebe:''' I don't know what you're up to but whatever it is, it is not gonna work. <br />
'''Cole:''' Don't you think you're being a little paranoid? <br />
'''Phoebe:''' With my demon ex-husband from hell? No, Cole, I don't. |'''''[[Charmed (TV)|Charmed]]''''' }}
|''[[Charmed]]'' }}
 
{{quote|''"Everyone's always told me that I'm paranoid and need to calm down, but guess what? I'm ''alive'', and everyone who told me that is ''dead''! I have the US military spray-painting my name on the walls, setting laser trip mines, and firing ''a fucking missile launcher'' at me, and people have the gall to call ''me'' paranoid!"''|'''Gordon Freeman, ''[[Freemans Mind|Freeman's Mind]]'''''}}
|'''Gordon Freeman''', ''[[Freeman's Mind]]''}}
 
{{quote|''"Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face."''|'''Harry Dresden, ''[[The Dresden Files|Storm Front]]'''''}}
|'''Harry Dresden''', ''[[The Dresden Files|Storm Front]]''}}
 
{{quote|Even paranoids have enemies.
{{quote|'''The Doctor:''' [[Five Rounds Rapid|[The weapons] are useless, Brigadier.]]<br />
|'''Joseph Berke''', psychotherapist}}
'''[[The Brigadier]]:''' Not this time, Doctor. [Shows him [[Depleted Phlebotinum Shells|different bullets]]] Armor piercing, solid core with Teflon coating. Go through a [[Mighty Glacier|Dalek.]] UNIT's been very busy, Doctor. We also got high-explosive rounds for [[Bigfoot Sasquatch and Yeti|Yetis]] and very efficient armour-piercing rounds for [[Mecha Mooks|Robots.]] And we even got gold-tipped bullets for [[Robot War|you-know-what.]] <br />
'''The Doctor:''' No silver?<br />
'''[[The Brigadier]]:''' Silver bullets?<br />
'''The Doctor:''' Well, you never know.<br />
'''[[The Brigadier]]:''' Quartermaster Sergeant! Silver bullets, have we any?<ref>Yes, they have.</ref>|'''''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]''''' <ref>[[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S26 E1 Battlefield|Guess what end up saving the day?]]</ref>}}
 
{{quote|Isn't that the nice part of going mad? You realize you weren't paranoid after all.
{{quote|''"Even paranoids have enemies."'' |'''Joseph Berke''', psychotherapist}}
|'''Helen Narbon''', ''[[Narbonic]]''}}
 
{{quote|Well, I guess it's true; it's not paranoia when someone's really after you.
{{quote|''"Isn't that the nice part of going mad? You realize you weren't paranoid after all."''|'''Helen Narbon''', ''[[Narbonic]]''}}
|'''Terry Stricter''', ''[[Bowfinger]]''}}
 
{{quote|You know, the lesson here might be that fear and paranoia is a bad thing, except that's what saved us.
{{quote|''"Well, I guess it's true; it's not paranoia when someone's really after you."''|'''Terry Stricter''', ''[[Bowfinger]]''}}
|'''Ron Stoppable''', ''[[Kim Possible]]''}}
 
{{quote|I always think everything could be a trap...which is why I'm still alive.
{{quote|''"You know, the lesson here might be that fear and paranoia is a bad thing, except that's what saved us."''|'''Ron Stoppable,''' ''[[Kim Possible]]''}}
|'''Prince Humperdinck''', ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]''}}
 
{{quote|Even a paranoid can have enemies.
{{quote|''"I always think everything could be a trap...which is why I'm still alive."''|'''Prince Humperdinck, ''[[The Princess Bride (Film)|The Princess Bride]]'''''}}
|rumored to have been said by [[wikipedia:Golda Meir|Golda Meir]] to [[wikipedia:Henry Kissinger|Henry Kissinger]] during the 1973 Sinai talks, after he accused her of being paranoid for refusing to grant the Palestinians additional concessions}}
 
{{quote|'''Michael:''' Even paranoids have enemies.
{{quote|''"Even a paranoid can have enemies."''|rumored to have been said by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golda_Meir Golda Meir] to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger Henry Kissinger] during the 1973 Sinai talks, after he accused her of being paranoid for refusing to grant the Palestinians additional concessions}}
'''Sam:''' Yeah, you're living proof of that. ''(Mike stares at him)'' "Well, you know, a little."
|"Wanted Man", ''[[Burn Notice]]'' }}
 
{{quote|Only a nasty, twisted mind like mine would think that he had been a German agent in Crete, became known to the Allies as a fifth columnist, lost his usefulness to the Germans and was shipped back to Navarone by fast motor-launch under cover of night.
{{quote|'''Michael:''' "Even paranoids have enemies."<br />
|'''Dusty Miller''', ''[[The Guns of Navarone]]'' }}
'''Sam:''' "Yeah, you're living proof of that." ''(Mike stares at him)'' "Well, you know, a little."|"Wanted Man", ''[[Burn Notice]]''
}}
 
{{quote|I have shown that, unless one has an overblown and (as with Greek columns), a very unrealistic representation of some tail risks, one cannot survive – all it takes is a single event for the irreversible exit from among us. Is selective paranoia “irrational” if those individuals and populations who don’t have it end up dying or extinct, respectively?
{{reflist}}
| '''Nassim Nicholas Taleb''', ''[//medium.com/incerto/how-to-be-rational-about-rationality-432e96dd4d1a How to be Rational about Rationality]'' }}
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{{quote|Paranoia makes such a great hobby -- at the very least, one is never bored.|Ancient net.wisdom}}
 
{{quote|I'm not paranoid, I've just got enhanced consciousness.}}
 
{{quote|"This is the Nineties, Bubba, and there is no such thing as Paranoia. It's all true."|[[Hunter S. Thompson]]}}
 
{{quote|When everyone really is out to get you, being paranoid is just good thinking.}}
 
{{quote|Paranoia is reality seen at a finer scale.|from ''[[Strange Days]]''}}
 
{{quote|Paranoia is a very comforting state of mind. If you think they're out to get you, it means you think you matter.}}
 
{{quote|Y'know, everyone's always told me that I'm paranoid and I need to calm down, but guess what? I'm ''alive'', and everyone whose said that is dead!|'''[[Half Life|Gordon Freeman]]''', ''[[Freeman's Mind]]''}}
 
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