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Quotes from The Paranoid Style in American Politics — Richard Hofstadter

1916–1970 United States

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The higher paranoid scholarship is nothing if not coherent — in fact the paranoid mind is far more coherent than the real world.

The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964)

Anti-Catholicism has always been the pornography of the Puritan.

The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964)

In the end, the real mystery, for one who reads the primary works of paranoid scholarship, is not how the United States has been brought to its present dangerous position but how it has managed to survive at all.

The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Richard Hofstadter (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.