Quotes About Madman

No one is a man of learning unless he is also a heretic and a madman, and above all , aggressively perverse.

Richard Nixon, famously, conducted his foreign policy according to the 'madman theory': he tried to convince enemy leaders that he was irrational and volatile in an attempt to intimidate them. But this was a potentially useful approach to foreign policy only because it was an act.

On the communist regime of Ceau?escu) Romania, said Eugene, was twenty million people living inside the imagination of a madman.

The water in which the mystic swims is the same water a madman drowns in.

You, therefore, who are undertaking the study of this book, if you persevere to the end and understand it, you will be either a monarch or a madman. Do what you will with this volume, you will be unable to despise or to forget it.

The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.

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 a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!

What if history was a gambler, instead of a force in a laboratory experiment, and the boys his ace in the hole? What if history was not a reasonable citizen, but a madman full of paranoid guile and these boys his agents, his big surprise! His own revenge?

Nietzsche believed that what this man will find deep inside is not very pretty. He wrote that if I am diligent, in my depths I will discover my "madman," "immoralist," "buffoon," and "criminal." Only then, Nietzsche said, will I finally tune in on something of value. Then I will be ready to actualize my true nature.

One must have common sense, nothing is permanent, nothing endures. I have come to the conclusion that this place is run by a madman. A madman, let me tell you, can be very logical. If you are rich and logical and also mad, you can succeed for a very long time in living out your illusion. But in the end....in the end this will break up. Because, you see, it is not reasonable what happens here! That which is not reasonable must always pay the reckoning in the end. ~Dr. Barron

Oh, yes. I've no doubt in my own mind that we have been invited here by a madman—probably a dangerous homicidal lunatic.

A madman in particular has always a very strong reason for the crimes he commits.

The judge nodded gently. He said: 'Oh, yes. I've no doubt in my own mind that we have been invited here by a madman—probably a dangerous homicidal lunatic.

But what you don't seem to realise is that Armstrong is mad! And a madman has all the advantages on his side. He's twice as cunning as anyone sane can be.

Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion.

Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.

Some of these figures were well known and even revered Delhi characters, such as the Majzub (holy madman) Din Ali Shah: "He is so careless about the affairs of this world," wrote Sayyid

Not every madman is an agent of the divine, Not all who pass are allowed to come through.

Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that open to us.

History is the autobiography of a madman.

It was how it had been with the madman among the tombs, that their number was legion, far in excess at any rate if the number listed on the back of the door as the room's maximum occupancy.

History is the autobiography of a madman.

Of course I put a chain on him—he's recovering fast and he's quite muscular." He frowned on a thought. "You shouldn't be visiting him now that he can move about—he might grab you." She gave him an incredulous look. He grimaced. "I can find a suitable place for him, perhaps a room with a barred door—" "You mean a cage." "We've already discussed this: I'll not let a madman near you.

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.