"Society is madhouse whose wardens are the officials……" — August Strindberg
"Society is madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police"
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August Strindberg
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53 Quotes by August Strindberg
August Strindberg has 53 quotes on this site.
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Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for…
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It's terribly hard to be married ... harder than anything else. I think you have to be an angel.
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That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
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Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers,…
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Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him.
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I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love.
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What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of…
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In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in…
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People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the…
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The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband.…
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No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.
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Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on a significant bases of reality,…
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The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The whole of life has become an institution, a madhouse in which duties are to be fulfilled not love; in…
— Rajneesh
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Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.
— Oliver Heaviside
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The madhouse is in a lot of places, not just a hospital, not just a palace, but also a pattern…
— Unknown Author
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The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse.
— Allen Ginsberg
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Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a…
— Kate Millett
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The world is a collective madhouse, its inhabitants are merely faking sanity. It is critical to becoming aware of these…
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Dark City Blue is a freight train of a thriller crashing through some madhouse city night while a bomb's ticking…
— Unknown Author
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One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or…
— Michael Ende
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At the moment, every country arrives at climate negotiations seeking to keep their own emissions as high as possible. This…
— Mohamed Nasheed
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Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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