Art Quote by Max Nordau

Degenerates are not always criminals, prostitutes, anarchists and pronounced lunatics; they are often authors and artists

— Max Nordau

“These punk anarchist peoples de most honest an’ authentic peoples in de whole world!”

— Jonathan Shaw

Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.

— Albert Einstein

The defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people.

— Caleb Carr

Lunatics are writers whose works write them.

— David Mitchell

“Who tarnishes, assaults, threatens, hates the spirit of man is guilty of crime.”

— Christina Stead

“Lunatics are not the only ones to be called lunatics.”

— Raheel Farooq

“Debasement? Yes, I write about debasement. I write about a lot of nasty things: obsession, violence, sex, religion, politics, death, and mental illness, but…

— Anonymous

“The degeneracy of mankind is distinguished from its uprise by the dominance of chill abstractions, divorced from aesthetic content.”

— Alfred North Whitehead

“When you are in the company of lunatics, behave like a lunatic. When you are in the company of intelligentsias, speak with brilliance...that is…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“So long as anarchy is synonymous with chaos and despair, the Anarchists will always be synonymous with villains.”

— Marissa Meyer

“A lunatic is just a minority of one.”

— George Orwell