Madman Quotes
143 quotes by 119 authors
-
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to…
— Antonin Artaud
-
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
— Emile M. Cioran
-
...The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out unless the government…
— Harry Browne
-
For over five years this man has been chasing around Europe like a madman in search of something he could set on fire. Unfortunately he…
— Adolf Hitler
-
The poet is a madman lost in adventure.
— Paul Verlaine
-
Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
-
Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
-
Don't believe stories which you see in the papers about troops asking as a special privilege not to be relieved. We stick it, at all…
— Harry Yoxall
-
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.
— Antisthenes
-
The logic of a madman is a sane man's confusion.
— Joe R. Lansdale
-
Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one…
— Miguel de Cervantes
-
I may be a lunatic, but then, wasn't my lunacy caused by a monster that lurks at the bottom of every human mind? Those who…
— RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
-
And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm.
— Stephen Fry
-
Psychiatry's a young science. Yesterday's madman may be tomorrow's genius. Beethoven and Van Gogh were both a bit loopy. In my view, most madmen are…
— Clare Boylan
-
I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make…
— Tim Robbins
-
Hawks favor war on the grounds that Saddam Hussein is reckless, tyrannical and instinctively aggressive, and that if he comes into possession of nuclear weapons…
— Charles Krauthammer
-
Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted advisor.
— Terry Pratchett
-
I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists,…
— Mahatma Gandhi
-
If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good…
— Socrates
-
History is the autobiography of a madman.
— Alexander Herzen
Who Wrote These Madman Quotes
119 authors contributed a total of 143 Madman Quotes, led by these top contributors: