Cases Quote by Henri Michaux

Even the most primitive of societies have an innate respect for the insane

— SE Hinton

You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions…

— Octave Mirbeau

There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend…

— H. L. Mencken

Only the insane take themselves seriously.

— Max Beerbohm

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

— Nora Ephron

That's the nice thing about insanity: evil people kill you, but crazy ones try to make you understand.

— Anonymous

“How do you get rational, well-respected people involved in your insanity? I mean is it something you taught yourself to do or is it…

— Shelly Laurenston

The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act bored and…

— Maureen Dowd

If you treat your subject with seriousness and respect, other people tend to treat it the same way.

— Vanessa Friedman

What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens.

— Christopher Fry

Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.

— Anonymous

There are those who think that in order to get respect you have to be some sort of tyrant or overly authoritative. You can…

— Gianfranco Zola