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Quotes About Insanity

And whatever it was that happened, he eventually seemed born anew and became a kind of giddy pied piper for that newness and freedom and joy, so much so that many thought he must be demon possessed—or at least simply mad.
~ Eric Metaxas
The underlying notion of a world where the sane is insane
~ Erica Spindler
Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. "Patriotism" is its cult.
~ Erich Fromm
Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. 'Patriotism' is its cult...Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.
~ Erich Fromm
Twolegs are mad. Even the smallest kit knows that.
~ Erin Hunter
Perhaps everything you say is true and these are the death throes of the human race, but even if that was true, I would not lose faith. There must be hope, and I must fight for my Emperor against Chaos and it's servants. That is insanity. Wrong, it's being human.
~ Ben Counter
There was never a great genius without a touch of madness.
~ Ben Jonson
The dead shook off their rust of living and seized up steel. Their lips quivered with the defiance of innocents, with manipulations of politicians and their interchangeable dreams, and with the insanity of thugs who don't even know for which parties they commit their atrocities.
~ Ben Okri
Avarice, ambition, lust, etc., are nothing but species of madness.
~ Benedict Spinoza
I have sometimes half believed, although the suspicion is mortifying, that there is only one step between his state who deeply indulges in imaginative meditation, and insanity.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
If you do not cure yourself of this temper, it will end in insanity, of which it is the symptomatic forerunner.
~ Benjamin Franklin
One of the reasons MSNBC is plummeting is that I, not long ago, refused to play any content from them. I figured, why? I mean, it's genuine depraved partisan politics insanity, genuine extremist radical ignoramuses on that network.
~ Rush Limbaugh
A man kept his character even when he was insane.
~ Graham Greene
What's the good? he'll always be innocent, you can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
~ Graham Greene
Madness is born in the blood. It is my birthright.
~ Grant Morrison
Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last
~ Gregory Maguire
Well, 'They Live' was a primal scream against Reaganism of the '80s. And the '80s never went away. They're still with us. That's what makes 'They Live' look so fresh - it's a document of greed and insanity. It's about life in the United States then and now. If anything, things have gotten worse.
~ John Carpenter
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
~ Alexander Pope
Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results when, in fact, the results never change, is one definition of insanity. That goes for economics, too.
~ Lawrence Kudlow
We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.
~ Francis Ford Coppola
That's the last thing on Earth you should think about... There's just a whole lot of things that aren't going to work for you. Figure out what they are and avoid them like the plague. And one of them is bitcoin... It is total insanity.
~ Charlie Munger
Eurovision' lifts you off your feet - and, by that, I mean the absolute joy, total insanity and madness of the whole thing.
~ Mel Giedroyc
Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
Caspar felt like a captive beast in a zoo being watched by an insane visitor who has set fire to its cage and is blocking its only means of escape
~ Sebastian Fitzek