Justin Cartwright Quotes

I always call myself either an optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist - I'm not sure which way it goes.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.

A lot of people don't give much thought to what they believe, and it's easy for them to hold what often are two conflicting ideas in their head at the same time.

The public are not stupid.

The public is schizophrenic.

I think people have a hard time dealing with a bunch of things at once. They can't have something be disturbing and funny at the same time. They can't have that kind of combination. Which is weird to me because I feel complicated about most things.

F. Scott Fitzgerald has an indespensible quote: 'The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at once and still retain the ability to function'. Or, as I like to call it, 'O.J. killed his wife, and the police are corrupt.'

People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.

Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.

I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.

My problem is not that I see all 17 sides of any issue, but I'm equally passionate about all 17 sides simultaneously.

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.

The public's not stupid.

This thing that Colin Powell's son is expected to do is kind of scary when you think that television and radio and newspapers are what make people think what they think.

Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.

Critics intend on changing the balance of public opinion and of political power.

Polls are contradictory when the public opinion is such.

Commercial television has underestimated the intelligence of the public.

In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.