The Echo Chamber Quotes

“But this is how you influence people. By gaining as many followers as possible and making them believe in you, even if you have no knowledge or training in your particular subject.”
― John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

“Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community. Then they were quickly silenced, but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It’s the invasion of the idiots.”
― John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

“constantly alert to every injustice in society, every perceived slight, and who are just desperate to let you know when they’ve found one. They seek them out with all the urgency of truffling pigs.”
― John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

“just because you’re part of a minority does not automatically qualify you for sainthood. You can still be small-minded, you can still be narcissistic and you can still be a bully.”
― John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

“But you have to appreciate that we’re not talking about normal people here. We’re talking about people on Twitter.”
― John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

“I’m starting to feel that nowadays there’s no one more bigoted than a liberal. The right-wingers, at least they own their hatred and don’t try to dress it up in anything other than the intolerant, narrow-minded, self-serving bullshit that it is. You know where you are with the Right. But the Left? My God, disagree with them for even a moment, dare to ask a question or deviate from the company line, and they’re on you like flies on shit. They won’t stand for even an iota of disagreement, pleading for kindness while masking their own intolerance in sanctimony. It’s McCarthyism hidden beneath the umbrella of Wokeness.”
― John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

“I blame Steve Jobs. And that Zuckerberg fellow. All those clever little psychopaths who couldn’t get laid in high school but make up for their sexual inadequacy by inventing technology that destroys humanity. They’re the Oppenheimers of the twenty-first century.”
― John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

“I don’t know which is worse, that you think you either have the power or the moral right to, in your words, cancel another human being, or that you think that normal, sensible people would play along with your idiocy? Cancelled! It’s actually offensive to the ear even hearing such a word spoken aloud. The … the … the …’ He struggled to complete his sentence, but with each utterance of the word the, the other occupants of the room sat forward a little, waiting to see where he went with it. ‘The … the … the insufferable arrogance,’ he spat out finally. ‘The unspeakable superciliousness! The grotesque sense of moral superiority!”
― John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

“The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.’ JON RONSON,
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed”
― John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

“Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community. Then they were quickly silenced, but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It’s the invasion of the idiots.’ UMBERTO ECO”
― John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

“Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak”
― John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

“I’m sorry, but there is nothing – nothing – that squeezes my lemons more than people saying that.”
― John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

“They wouldn’t understand anyway. The cheese fell off their crackers a long time ago.”
― John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

“There’s nothing we can do about it,’ protested Wilkes. ‘She got cancelled. It was decided.’ ‘By who?’ roared George. ‘By social media!’ ‘Oh, fuck social media! And fuck all the morons who spend their time on it.”
― John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

“The Wokesters.’ ‘The what?’ ‘People that are, you know, constantly alert to every injustice in society, every perceived slight, and who are just desperate to let you know when they’ve found one. They seek them out with all the urgency of truffling pigs.”
― John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

“In my day, we would invite people we didn’t like to our campuses and then debate them. Put the bastards in their place. Not just ban them from the outset. It’s cowardly. And shows a shameful lack of oratorical skills.”
― John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

“They being?’ ‘The Wokesters.’ ‘The what?’ ‘People that are, you know, constantly alert to every injustice in society, every perceived slight, and who are just desperate to let you know when they’ve found one. They seek them out with all the urgency of truffling pigs.”
― John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

“The powers that be, the Great Unelected Consciences of the World, didn’t approve of what she said and that was the end of her.”
― John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

“prophylactics.”
― John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

“amanuensis,”
― John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

“People that are, you know, constantly alert to every injustice in society, every perceived slight, and who are just desperate to let you know when they’ve found one. They seek them out with all the urgency of truffling pigs.”
― John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

“how Jesus did it, after all. And look at Christianity. It’s huge.’ ‘Jesus wasn’t on social media,’ countered Elizabeth.”
― John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

“I’m educating strangers on how they can live better lives. And making sure that those with the wrong opinions are held to account.”
― John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

“I understand that some people prefer the third person plural for a pronoun,’ he replied, having recently interviewed a pop singer on his show who’d insisted upon this, leading one of the cameramen to be fired for calling them Sibyl, after the Sally Field movie about the woman with multiple personalities.”
― John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

“I'm 25" admitted the ghost. "But I feel much older"
"How old do you feel?"
"Ancient, sometimes. Like, 30”
― John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

“You don’t want to be labelled with a conventional pronoun that has been in common usage since the English tongue was first established,’ continued Beverley. ‘And so, instead, you’d like to be labelled with an equally conventional pronoun that has been in common usage since the English tongue was first established. Simply the pluralized version. That’s it, isn’t it?”
― John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

“If you ask me,’ she adds, pointing towards the book in her husband’s lap, the stern visage of its subject, Alexander Graham Bell, staring back at her, ‘that fucker has a lot to answer for.”
― John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

“One of 5he few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record.”
― John Boyne, The Echo Chamber