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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.
|'''Eliot''', ''[[Leverage]]''}}


{{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"'''}}
{{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"}}


{{quote|''"Every time I think I'm paranoid enough, my enemies find a new way to show me different."''|'''Crimson''', '''''[[City of Heroes]]'''''}}
{{quote|Every time I think I'm paranoid enough, my enemies find a new way to show me different.
|'''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]]'''''}}
{{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]]''}}


{{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'''''}}
{{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''}}


{{quote|''"A paranoiac is a guy who knows a ''little'' of what's going on."''|'''William S. Burroughs'''}}
{{quote|A paranoiac is a guy who knows a ''little'' of what's going on.
|'''William S. Burroughs'''}}


{{quote|''"No matter how paranoid you are, you're not paranoid enough."''|'''[[Doomed by Canon|Suzanne Modeski]]''', ''[[The X-Files]]''}}
{{quote|No matter how paranoid you are, you're not paranoid enough.
|'''[[Doomed by Canon|Suzanne Modeski]]''', ''[[The X-Files]]''}}


{{quote|'''Odo''': Aren't you being a little paranoid?
{{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"'''}}
'''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."''|'''Martin Willett'''}}
{{quote|It's not paranoia when [[A Nazi by Any Other Name|they]] really are out to get you.
|'''Martin Willett'''}}


{{quote|''"Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you"''|'''[[Nirvana]]''', [[Intentionally Awkward Title|"Territorial Pissings"]] (from ''Nevermind'', 1991)}}
{{quote|Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you
|'''[[Nirvana]]''', [[Intentionally Awkward Title|"Territorial Pissings"]] (from ''Nevermind'', 1991)}}


{{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)}}
{{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)}}


{{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]]'', "The Predator"'''}}
{{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]]'', "The Predator"}}


{{quote|''"Remember: A Paranoid is simply someone in possession of all the facts."'' |'''Spider Jerusalem, ''[[Transmetropolitan]]''''' }}
{{quote|Remember: A Paranoid is simply someone in possession of all the facts.
|'''Spider Jerusalem''', ''[[Transmetropolitan]]'' }}


{{quote|''They are used to ease irrational fears (which is silly; in Alpha Complex there '''are''' no irrational fears.'')|'''''[[Paranoia]]'''''}}
{{quote|They are used to ease irrational fears (which is silly; in Alpha Complex there '''are''' no irrational fears.)
|''[[Paranoia]]''}}


{{quote|''79. Fear everything, it's safer.''|'''''[http://monsterlibrarian.com/horrorsurvive.htm Horror Survival List]'''''}}
{{quote|79. Fear everything, it's safer.
|''[http://monsterlibrarian.com/horrorsurvive.htm Horror Survival List]'' }}


{{quote|''"[[Catch Phrase|Constant Vigilance!]]"''|'''"Mad-Eye" Moody {{spoiler|impersonator!}}, ''[[Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire]]'''''}}
{{quote|[[Catch Phrase|Constant Vigilance!]]
|'''"Mad-Eye" Moody''' {{spoiler|impersonator!}}, ''[[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.''|'''[[Terry Pratchett]], ''[[Discworld/Sourcery|Sourcery]]''''' }}
{{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/Sourcery|Sourcery]]'' }}


{{quote|''"Paranoia: You only have to be right once for it to be worthwhile."''|'''Anonymous'''}}
{{quote|Paranoia: You only have to be right once for it to be worthwhile.
|'''Anonymous'''}}


{{quote|''"How can I be paranoid...when the paranoid mother-fuckers who are making me paranoid are really out there?"''|'''[[David Cross]]'''}}
{{quote|How can I be paranoid...when the paranoid mother-fuckers who are making me paranoid are really out there?
|'''[[David Cross]]'''}}




{{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.}}
{{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.}}


{{quote|''"Paranoia is just reality on a finer scale."''|'''Philo Gant''', '''''[[Strange Days]]''''' }}
{{quote|Paranoia is just reality on a finer scale.
|'''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]]'''''}}
{{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]]''}}


{{quote|''"Why?" Gareth bleated. "What's wrong? For three days you've been running away from your own shadows..."''
{{quote|"Why?" Gareth bleated. "What's wrong? For three days you've been running away from your own shadows...
''"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'''''}}
"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'''}}


{{quote|'''Phoebe:''' I don't know what you're up to but whatever it is, it is not gonna work.
{{quote|'''Phoebe:''' I don't know what you're up to but whatever it is, it is not gonna work.
'''Cole:''' Don't you think you're being a little paranoid?
'''Cole:''' Don't you think you're being a little paranoid?
'''Phoebe:''' With my demon ex-husband from hell? No, Cole, I don't. |'''''[[Charmed]]''''' }}
'''Phoebe:''' With my demon ex-husband from hell? No, Cole, I don't.
|''[[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, ''[[Freeman's Mind]]'''''}}
{{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''', ''[[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]]'''''}}
{{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]]''}}


{{quote|'''The Doctor:''' [[Five Rounds Rapid|[The weapons] are useless, Brigadier.]]<br />
{{quote|'''The Doctor:''' [[Five Rounds Rapid|[The weapons] are useless, Brigadier.]]
'''[[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 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.]]
'''The Doctor:''' No silver?<br />
'''The Doctor:''' No silver?
'''[[The Brigadier]]:''' Silver bullets?<br />
'''[[The Brigadier]]:''' Silver bullets?
'''The Doctor:''' Well, you never know.<br />
'''The Doctor:''' Well, you never know.
'''[[The Brigadier]]:''' Quartermaster Sergeant! Silver bullets, have we any?<ref>Yes, they have.</ref>|'''''[[Doctor Who]]''''' <ref>[[Doctor Who/Recap/S26 E1 Battlefield|Guess what end up saving the day?]]</ref>}}
'''[[The Brigadier]]:''' Quartermaster Sergeant! Silver bullets, have we any?<ref>Yes, they have.</ref>
|''[[Doctor Who]]'' <ref>[[Doctor Who/Recap/S26 E1 Battlefield|Guess what end up saving the day?]]</ref>}}


{{quote|''"Even paranoids have enemies."'' |'''Joseph Berke''', psychotherapist}}
{{quote|Even paranoids have enemies.
|'''Joseph Berke''', psychotherapist}}


{{quote|''"Isn't that the nice part of going mad? You realize you weren't paranoid after all."''|'''Helen Narbon''', ''[[Narbonic]]''}}
{{quote|Isn't that the nice part of going mad? You realize you weren't paranoid after all.
|'''Helen Narbon''', ''[[Narbonic]]''}}


{{quote|''"Well, I guess it's true; it's not paranoia when someone's really after you."''|'''Terry Stricter''', ''[[Bowfinger]]''}}
{{quote|Well, I guess it's true; it's not paranoia when someone's really after you.
|'''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."''|'''Ron Stoppable,''' ''[[Kim Possible]]''}}
{{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]]''}}


{{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]]'''''}}
{{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]]''}}


{{quote|Even a paranoid can have enemies.
{{quote|''"Even a paranoid can have enemies."''|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}}
|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|'''Michael:''' Even paranoids have enemies.
'''Sam:''' "Yeah, you're living proof of that." ''(Mike stares at him)'' "Well, you know, a little."|"Wanted Man", ''[[Burn Notice]]''
'''Sam:''' Yeah, you're living proof of that. ''(Mike stares at him)'' "Well, you know, a little."
|"Wanted Man", ''[[Burn Notice]]'' }}
}}


{{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|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.
|Sandy Mitchel|[[Ciaphas Cain]]}}
|Sandy Mitchel|''[[Ciaphas Cain]]''}}

{{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.
|'''Dusty Miller''', ''[[The Guns of Navarone]]'' }}


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Revision as of 07:40, 11 April 2015


Done the things I've done, there's no such thing as paranoia.

Eliot, Leverage

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"

Every time I think I'm paranoid enough, my enemies find a new way to show me different.

Crimson, City of Heroes

It's one thing to believe that everyone is out to get you. Quite another when it's actually true.

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

A paranoiac is a guy who knows a little of what's going on.

William S. Burroughs

No matter how paranoid you are, you're not paranoid enough.

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"

It's not paranoia when they really are out to get you.

Martin Willett

Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you

Nirvana, "Territorial Pissings" (from Nevermind, 1991)

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)

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, "The Predator"

Remember: A Paranoid is simply someone in possession of all the facts.

Spider Jerusalem, Transmetropolitan

They are used to ease irrational fears (which is silly; in Alpha Complex there are no irrational fears.)

79. Fear everything, it's safer.

Constant Vigilance!

"Mad-Eye" Moody impersonator!, Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire

Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn't. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. Wizards know it.

Paranoia: You only have to be right once for it to be worthwhile.

Anonymous

How can I be paranoid...when the paranoid mother-fuckers who are making me paranoid are really out there?


I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?

GURPS Illuminati, Written on the cover in dark grey text on black background.

Paranoia is just reality on a finer scale.

Philo Gant, Strange Days

You know what, Grady? Some people think I'm overly prepared, paranoid, maybe even a little bit crazy... but they never met any pre-Cambrian lifeforms, did they?

"Why?" Gareth bleated. "What's wrong? For three days you've been running away from your own shadows...
"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

Phoebe: I don't know what you're up to but whatever it is, it is not gonna work.
Cole: Don't you think you're being a little paranoid?
Phoebe: With my demon ex-husband from hell? No, Cole, I don't.

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, Freeman's Mind

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, Storm Front

The Doctor: [The weapons] are useless, Brigadier.
The Brigadier: Not this time, Doctor. [Shows him different bullets] Armor piercing, solid core with Teflon coating. Go through a Dalek. UNIT's been very busy, Doctor. We also got high-explosive rounds for Yetis and very efficient armour-piercing rounds for Robots. And we even got gold-tipped bullets for you-know-what.
The Doctor: No silver?
The Brigadier: Silver bullets?
The Doctor: Well, you never know.
The Brigadier: Quartermaster Sergeant! Silver bullets, have we any?[1]

Even paranoids have enemies.

Joseph Berke, psychotherapist

Isn't that the nice part of going mad? You realize you weren't paranoid after all.

Helen Narbon, Narbonic

Well, I guess it's true; it's not paranoia when someone's really after you.

Terry Stricter, Bowfinger

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

I always think everything could be a trap...which is why I'm still alive.

Prince Humperdinck, The Princess Bride

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

—rumored to have been said by Golda Meir to Henry Kissinger during the 1973 Sinai talks, after he accused her of being paranoid for refusing to grant the Palestinians additional concessions

Michael: Even paranoids have enemies.
Sam: Yeah, you're living proof of that. (Mike stares at him) "Well, you know, a little."

—"Wanted Man", Burn Notice

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.

—Sandy Mitchel, Ciaphas Cain

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.

Dusty Miller, The Guns of Navarone