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Madmen Quotes by Denis Diderot
- There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
- To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like…
- The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and... people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of…
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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… — Antonin Artaud
- Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent… — 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… — Harry Browne
- For over five years this man has been chasing around Europe like a madman in search of something he could set on… — 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… — Marcus Tullius Cicero