It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.
I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.
Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
Hysteria is a chaotic and irrational emotional state caused by seeing how the world really operates.
When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally.
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
We hardly need to be reminded that we are living in an age of confusion - a lot of us have traded in our beliefs for bitterness and cynicism or for a heavy package of despair, or even a quivering portion of hysteria. Opinions can be picked up cheap in the market place while such commodities as courage and fortitude and faith are in alarmingly short supply.
Besides, hysteria is only possible with an audience.
As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.
I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.
Keep the people ignorant and afraid and control and power becomes a detail - a self generating byproduct of the people's hysteria.
The charges of the hysterics are revealed for what they are: castles in the air built on misrepresentation, supported by unfounded fear, held aloft by hysteria.
I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.
Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to change than respect, hate is more enduring than aversion, and the impetus to the mightiest upheavals on this earth has at all times consisted less in a scientific knowledge dominating the masses than in a fanaticism which inspired them and sometimes in a hysteria which drove them forward.
The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria.
Hysteria takes too much energy to be maintained forever.
Every Left-wing hysteria of my lifetime has turned out to be untrue. Every single one
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement.
Yes, you have cancer. Yes, your kids are on drugs. Yes, there is an elephant outside your tent. Now the question becomes, What are you going to do about it? Subsequent emotions may not be pleasant, but the hysteria stops. Hysteria accompanies an unwillingness to look at what is really going on; it promotes an unwillingness to look. We feel we are afraid to look, when actually it is not-looking that makes us afraid. The minute we look, we cease being afraid.
There had to be a hysteria and a fear sent through America in order to get increased war budgets.
I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.
Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!
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