Talk:Hysteria

Hysteria was created March 10, 2022, by now-blocked sockmaster Libraryclerk0191, with the socks' signature use of editorializing paragraphs rather than notable quotes, especially paragraphs that denounce the US for pro-war hysteria, "anti-Russian hysteria," "hysteria about Ukraine," etc.

So I went looking elsewhere for articles that give quotable quotes by notable people about the topic "hysteria." (As opposed to paragraphs editorializing about something else that use the word "hysteria" to make their point.) And I found some. I hope others will continue to improve this article, if it will be kept at all.

It is an example of their general approach to take an article about something negative, like "hysteria," "dishonesty," "propaganda," etc. and then pop into it a lot of paragraphs where somebody accuses "the West" of hysteria, dishonesty, propaganda, etc. But accusations that (somebody you dislike) is guilty of Some Bad Thing isn't the way Wikiquote theme articles supposed to work. HouseOfChange (talk) 02:03, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

Showing the quotes and text I deleted from the article
On April 19 with this edit I removed many offtopic POV pushing "quotations", as well as one image. HouseOfChange (talk) 22:51, 26 April 2022 (UTC)


 * No outsider can imagine the stupidity, blustering hysteria, authoritarianism, and paralyzing boredom of shooting a flick for Billy Wilder. The so-called "actors" are simply trained poodles who sit up on their hind legs and jump through hoops. I thought the insanity would never stop.
 * Klaus Kinski, in Kinski Uncut : The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski (1996), p. 299


 * I am sure that this hysteria will fade away and our Western partners will get over it... If they expect... Russia to crawl under the bench and give in to someone's dictatorship, their expectations are wrong," Lavrov said. "In fact, they should remember our history, we have never made agreements under pressure...It's clear to everyone that World War III can only be a nuclear one. However, I would like to point out that thoughts of a nuclear war are circling in the heads of Western politicians but not in the heads of Russians.
 * Sergey Lavrov (Russia Foreign Minister), quoted in Russia Thinks West Will 'Get Over' Ukraine War, Calls Response 'Hysteria', Jason Lemon, Newsweek, March 3, 2022
 * Ours is the most outspoken society on Earth. Americans are freer to think what we will and say what we think than any other people, and freer today than in the past. We can bare the secrets of government and the secrets of the bedroom. We can denounce our rulers, and each other, with little fear of the consequences. There is almost no chance that a court will stop us from publishing what we wish: in print, on air, or on the Web. Hateful and shocking expression, political or artistic, is almost all free to enter the marketplace of ideas.
 * Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions — those institutions we proudly called the American way of life.
 * Douglas MacArthur, Speech to the Michigan legislature, in Lansing, Michigan (15 May 1952), published in General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964 (2000) by Edward T. Imparato, p. 206


 * 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. While such an economy may produce a sense of seeming prosperity for the moment, it rests on an illusionary foundation of complete unreliability and renders among our political leaders almost a greater fear of peace than is their fear of war.
 * Douglas MacArthur, Speech to the Michigan legislature, in Lansing, Michigan (15 May 1952), published in General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964 (2000) by Edward T. Imparato, p. 206, much of this was used in speeches of 1951, as quoted in The Twenty-year Revolution from Roosevelt to Eisenhower (1954) by Chesly Manly, p. 3, and Total Insecurity : The Myth Of American Omnipotence (2004) by Carol Brightman, p. 182


 * McCarthyism is an overused word, I know. But really, what other word will do to describe the sacking of a conductor for refusing to publicly denounce the leader of Russia? This is the case of Valery Gergiev, who was sacked by the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra this week for failing to condemn Putin. Mr Gergiev was literally given an ultimatum. As the Guardian’s headline put it: ‘Denounce Putin or lose your job: Russian conductor Valery Gergiev given public ultimatum.’  Gergiev refused to denounce Putin and so he lost his job. His management team dumped him too, while acknowledging that he is ‘the greatest conductor alive and an extraordinary human being with a profound sense of decency’. And yet he likes Putin, and refuses to distance himself from Putin even following his criminal invasion of Ukraine, and thus he must be expelled from the world of classical music.   It really does feel like a blacklisting. Gergiev is not only out of the Munich Philharmonic – he has also been dropped by the Vienna Philharmonic, for whom he was due to conduct performances at Carnegie Hall in New York in May. He is ‘more or less isolated in the world of classical music’, says the Guardian – which is a painfully polite way of saying he has been unpersoned.  A wave of anti-Russian hysteria is sweeping the West. Opposition to the Russian regime... is morphing too often into hostility towards Russian people and Russian things. We need to tone down this Russophobia, and fast.
 * Brendan O’Neill, A wave of anti-Russian hysteria is sweeping across the West, The Spectator, 4 March 2022


 * This founding false narrative was then embroidered by a consistent pattern of distorted U.S. reporting as the crisis unfolded. Indeed, for the past eight months, we have seen arguably the most one-sided coverage of a major international crisis in memory, although there were other crazed MSM stampedes, such as Iraq’s non-existent WMD in 2002-03, Iran’s supposed nuclear bomb project for most of the past decade, Libya’s “humanitarian crisis” of 2011, and Syria’s sarin gas attack in 2013. But the hysteria over Ukraine with U.S. officials and editorialists now trying to rally a NATO military response to Russia’s alleged “invasion” of Ukraine raises the prospect of a nuclear confrontation that could end all life on the planet.
 * Robert Parry: Who’s Telling the ‘Big Lie’ on Ukraine? Consortium News, December 8, 2021 (reprint of Who’s Telling the ‘Big Lie’ on Ukraine? by the late Robert Parry (1949 – 2018), Sept. 2, 2014


 * In response to threats from NATO that it will be expanding its military capabilities eastward, Russia on Tuesday countered by saying such moves will only result in military recalibrations of its own. Ahead of a NATO summit scheduled for later this week and citing repeated announcements by NATO Secretary- General Anders Fogh Rasmussen that a new military “spearhead”— a 4,000-soldier “rapid response” fighting force—would be positioned in eastern Europe, high-ranking Russian officials were pushing back.  Public Chamber deputy secretary Sergei Ordzhonikidze, told a state news agency that Rasmussen’s plans amounted to “military hysteria” and betrayed historic promises. He said Russia’s only option would be to respond with “reciprocal measures” of its own.  “When NATO troops are approaching our borders, of course, we develop a plan,” said Ordzhonikidze. “It is a threat when troops are being stationed next to your border. I recall NATO’s commitment not to expand the bloc’s territory eastward … All that remains to us is to somehow oppose this expansion of NATO.”
 * Jon Queally, NATO’s “Military Hysteria” Undermines Hope For Peace In Ukraine, Says Russia,MintPress News, September 2, 2014


 * “There is one very interesting fact,” Lavrov said Tuesday during a live TV interview, “that this [NATO] initiative appeared right after the meeting in Minsk where agreements on the process of the Contact Group were trying to find a commonly acceptable decision on the current domestic crisis in Ukraine.” Lavrov categorized U.S. statements and Rasmussen’s talk of NATO expansion as a conscious effort to undermine fragile peace efforts now underway between the Ukrainian rebels in the east and leaders of the Kiev government. It’s quite unfortunate that such moods in strengthening the positions of the ‘war party’ are actively warmed up and urged on out of Washington and several European capitals, and more and more often out of Brussels and from the NATO Headquarters where the secretary-general of the North Atlantic Alliance with or without reason comes out with announcements that do not fall under his jurisdiction,” Lavrov said.
 * Jon Queally, NATO’s “Military Hysteria” Undermines Hope For Peace In Ukraine, Says Russia,MintPress News, September 2, 2014