Lunatic Quotes

• A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Wisdom, Atheist

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn't be a great moral teacher. He'd be either a lunatic on a level with a man who says he's a poached egg or else he'd be the devil of hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.

  C. S. Lewis

  Teacher, Jesus, Son

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• The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Lunatic Asylums, Used, Planets

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• Strange times are these, in which we live, forsooth ;
  When young and old are taught in Falsehood's school:–
  And the man who dares to tell the truth,
  Is called at once a lunatic and fool.

  George Francis Train

  Peace, Fear, Truth

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• All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Insanity, Philosopher, Delusional

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• I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.

  John Malkovich

  Fabric, Littles, Bits

  "Wearing John Malkovich" by Teo Kermeliotis and Rosie Tomkins, www.cnn.com. January 21, 2010.

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• My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Views, Lunatic Asylums, Planets

  "God Is Not Great". Book by Christopher Hitchens, www.theguardian.com. 2011.

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• I may have been a complete lunatic, but I was a complete lunatic with manners.

  Maureen Johnson

  May, Manners, Has Beens

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.68, Penguin

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• Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Disputes

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1824). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare ...”, p.29

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• When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.

  Donald James

  Truth, Lying, Democracies Have

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• The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Carpe Diem, Imagination Creativity

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7

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• You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one.

  George Orwell

  Minorities

  George Orwell (2012). “1984”, p.89, Oberon Books

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• Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Presidential, Political, Reform

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• What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

  George Orwell

  Intelligent, Giving, Atheism

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.354, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

  Ezra Pound

  Men, Definitions, Pounds

  "Language, Sexuality, and Ideology in Ezra Pound's Cantos". Book by Jean-Michel Rabate, Jean-Michel Rabaté (p. 142), 1986.

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• The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.

  Donald James

  Self, Perfect, Historical

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• The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.

  H. L. Mencken

  Inspirational, Funny, Underdog

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.622, Vintage

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• The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Military, Believe, Army

  Orthodoxy (1908) ch. 2

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• When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Lying, Madness, Knows

  "Fictional character: Cervantes". "Man of La Mancha" by Dale Wasserman, 1965.

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• There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterately dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally pursued. Sorrowfully, but remorselessly, it must be recognized that he has become lunatic, morally demented, incapable of self-government, and that upon him, therefore, must be passed the sentence of permanent seclusion from a world in which he is not fit to be at large.

  William Booth

  Passion, Men, Self

  William Booth (1890). “In Darkest England, and the Way Out”, Bryce

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• If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.

  Kerry Thornley

  Weed, Marijuana, Religion

  The Introduction to the 5th Edition of "Principia Discordia" by Kerry Thornley, 1963.

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• The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

  Rebecca West

  Women, Differences, Idiot

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• The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves. A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn't the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn't flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.

  Donald James

  Truth, Lying, Self

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• My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.

  Spike Milligan

  Funny, Fathers Day, Dad

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• Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.

  George Orwell

  Insanity, Minorities, Lunacy

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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