Madmen Quotes
204 quotes by 157 authors
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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
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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
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Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
— Emile M. Cioran
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...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
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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
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We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen.
— Jacobo Timerman
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There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
— Denis Diderot
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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 poet is a madman lost in adventure.
— Paul Verlaine
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Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
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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
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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
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We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.
— Antisthenes
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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
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The logic of a madman is a sane man's confusion.
— Joe R. Lansdale
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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
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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
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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
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
— John Dryden
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