Susie Orbach Quotes

I think the reason why 'Red Eye' is popular is because we question the common assumptions that you find elsewhere.

I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists and feminists - firmly in their place.

It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country.

We promote pluralism, not dogma. We critique, we do not accept uncritically. We question and we debate, and over time we will separate the wheat from the chaff. We will separate the worthwhile from the misguided in all the new ideas and new voices that we hear. But we cannot do that if we close ourselves from the contrarian view, or simply suppress the views of those who would challenge the accepted and the known.

There are plenty of team players in government who do whatever the leader says. There are too few difficult members, who have complicated minds, unusual perspectives, the toughness to withstand the party-line barrages and a practical interest in producing results.

You see, the people that have a point of view and have an opinion and have some intellect are dangerous in the film community - they're dangerous.

I believe in being completely open to the most unlikely explanation.

As a culture, we've all agreed with the opinion that the world should be seen in a certain way, so at 'The Nightly Show,' our chief mission was to disagree with that premise. And to see the world in a way that may not make everybody comfortable. And to present it with a cast of people who don't always get to have a voice on that.

There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already.

It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature of a society.

I like the idea of subversively communicating with people... so that you make people see things in different ways.

… the third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

I'm against fashionable thinking.

Maybe rock 'n' roll isn't music. Maybe people just need to be reminded that the world ain't the way they think it is.

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

I want to provoke people with thoughts, not by taking my clothes off. It's time to move on from Stripperville.

I think that all comics or humorists, or whatever we are, ask questions. That's what we're supposed to do. But I not only ask the questions, I offer solutions.

I refused to accept anything, doubted everything. So, doubting everything, I had to find something that had not existed before, something I had not thought of before. Any idea that came to me, the thing would be to turn it around and try to see it with another set of senses.

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

It's really important, whether you're a conservative or a liberal, to always challenge the conventional wisdom, which is what I've tried to do in all my work.

When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.

I think most of us are outsiders. And I think that's good because it makes you question things.

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.