Anarchist Quote by Max Nordau

“Degenerates are not always criminals, anarchists, and pronounced lunatics; They are often authors and artists.”

— Max Nordau

Lunatics are writers whose works write them.

— David Mitchell

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

— Caleb Carr

The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common.

— Truman Capote

All Artists are Anarchists.

— George Bernard Shaw

I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place…

— Etgar Keret

Writers that pretend to be in the throes of some kind of genius-demon, some kind of possessing spirit that refuses to let them engage…

— Matt Fraction

The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions.

— Colin Wilson

The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

So what? All writers are lunatics!

— Cornelia Funke

Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

— Larry Kramer

“Lunatics are writers whose works write them, Bat." "Not all lunatics are writers, Mrs. Rey-believe me." "But most writers are lunatics, Bat-believe me. The…

— David Mitchell