Madmen Quotes

204 quotes by 157 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
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage;… — Georges Bataille
Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen. — Emile M. Cioran
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
We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen. — Jacobo Timerman
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself. — Denis Diderot
The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass of folly, and… — Adam Sedgwick
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
To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an… — Thomas Traherne
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
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know. — John Dryden

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