Will Self Quotes About Madness

Quotes about: Madness

• Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion that history, far from being made by the great mass of individuals - as Marx averred - is rather unmade by a single massive individual, a collective Other, who stands in stark contrast to you and he.

  Will Self

  Comfort, Crowds, Strange

• Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an image of the past that can then be Photoshopped before being pasted on to the future.

  Will Self

  Past, Individuality, Statistics

• Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.

  Will Self

  Crowds, Madness, Sometimes

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