{"id":1001704,"date":"2026-04-08T11:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001704"},"modified":"2026-04-08T11:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:01:11","slug":"quote-of-the-day-by-paypal-co-founder-peter-thiel-madness-is-rare-in-individuals-but-in-groups-parties-nations-and-ages-it-is-the-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/08\/quote-of-the-day-by-paypal-co-founder-peter-thiel-madness-is-rare-in-individuals-but-in-groups-parties-nations-and-ages-it-is-the-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the day by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel: \u201cMadness is rare in individuals\u2014but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quotes often express complicated ideas in a few short words. They make us stop and think about how people act and think, both as individuals and as part of a larger group. Today&#8217;s quote is from Peter Thiel, a well-known entrepreneur and investor who has talked a lot about how important it is to think for yourself and the dangers of going along with what everyone else is doing. His words point out a pattern that has been seen throughout history: people can act rationally on their own, but groups can make decisions that seem crazy or extreme. This notion is not novel; it persists in contemporary relevance, particularly in an era influenced by social media, political movements, and collective trends. We can learn more about how people act and make decisions by figuring out what this quote means.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quotes often express complicated ideas in a few short words. They make us stop and think about how people act and think, both as individuals and as part of a larger group. Today&#8217;s quote is from Peter Thiel, a well-known entrepreneur and investor who has talked a lot about how important it is to think for yourself and the dangers of going along with what everyone else is doing. His words point out a pattern that has been seen throughout history: people can act rationally on their own, but groups can make decisions that seem crazy or extreme. This notion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}