delusions

• “One of the great challenges in examining a case like this is to be able to distinguish whether it is the organized behavior that drives from a fixed false idea, an irrational, what we call delusions in which people who have a major illness can actually behave in an organized way or if there is something in parallel, some particular resentment.”

  CNN Transcript Apr 20, 2007

• “More tales of paranoid delusions from the Bush era ... nola70119”

  Townsend: Bush illness investigated, poisoning unlikely

• “While the U.S. still is the ultimate place to prosper economically, it risks falling behind if its taxes and regulations force its young "vital few" to seek greener pastures elsewhere, and large segments of its population continue to indulge in delusions that their entitlements can be sustained.”

  Forbes: The Vanishing Middle Class--And The Lasting Remedies

• “I am a Russian nationalist, true, but I am far from blind to our faults nor do I live in delusions about our past, which had many glories and tragedies and punishments by God for disobeying His Eternal Will.”

  Think Progress » Clinton: Media, Politicians Shouldn’t Fuel ‘Hatriot’ Groups With Anti-Government Rhetoric That Inspired McVeigh

• “Closed-minded people aggressively protect their ideology-based delusions from the influences of reality or other ideas.”

  Democracy needs informed people, Obama tells grads

• “Another one of her delusions is that everyone she knows is a clone, or series of them, and they're all out to harvest her organs, and otherwise persecute her.”

  Heroes or Villains?

• “Anti-Venizelist Greece,22 however, after succeeding in ostracising Greek reality and replacing it with delusions, is already struggling to import prematurely, before its time, a foreign reality just to show that it's getting on with something.”

  Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity

• “The urge to be confirmed in our worst delusions is utterly overwhelming – that people are out to get us, that we are not loved, not valuable, not capable, that life is pointless, that tasks are beyond us, oh the list goes on and on.”

  A Little Help? « Tales from the Reading Room

• “I came here a bit directionless and though I would never entertain delusions so grand as changing the ideas or customs of an entire culture, I am nevertheless wholly enjoying listening and observing, asking and answering questions.”

  Archive 2007-11-01

• “You seem to entertain delusions about the world's overpopulation problem: "we could fit the entire population of the WORLD in Texas ...”

  Sound Politics: "Peak Oil" Despair Versus Energy Innovation

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