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

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