I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains Quotes.

1. "The villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least."
- Chuck Klosterman, I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains

2. "It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure."
- Chuck Klosterman, I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains

3. "Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the progressives. Conservatism can only win in the short term, because society cannot stop evolving (and social evolution inevitably dovetails with the agenda of those who see change as an abstract positive). It might take seventy years, but it always happens eventually. Serious historians are, almost without exception, self-styled progressives. Radical views--even the awful ones--improve with age."
- Chuck Klosterman, I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains

4. "We all eventually become whatever we pretend to hate."
- Chuck Klosterman, I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains

5. "Everything (N.W.A.) attempted had to possess criminal undertones. I can only assume they spent hours trying to deduce villainous ways to microwave popcorn (and if they'd succeeded, there would absolutely be a song about it, assumedly titled "Pop Goes the Corn Killa", or "45 Seconds to Bitch Snack")."
- Chuck Klosterman, I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains

6. "I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me."
- Chuck Klosterman, I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains

7. "Is there anything more attractive than a polite person with limitless self-belief? There is not."
- Chuck Klosterman, I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains

8. "First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much."
- Chuck Klosterman, I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains

9. "The reason behind everything always has to be something else entirely."
- Chuck Klosterman, I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains

10. "And this, of course, is the central problem with conspiracy theorists — once you inflexibly accept that something is a conspiracy, any contrary evidence has the paradoxical effect of making your case stronger. Every contradiction deepens the conspiracy."
- Chuck Klosterman, I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains