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• A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,’ said he. ‘Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Men, Mad, Laughing

  Rafael Sabatini (2015). “Captain Blood: Story Pirates”, p.59, 谷月社

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• He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.

  Vasily Grossman

  Endurance, Characteristics, Simpletons

  Vasily Grossman (2011). “Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.11, Random House

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• The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.

  Denis Diderot

  People, Religion, Atheism

  "Conversations with a Christian Lady". "Selected Writings", edited by Lester G. Crocker, 1966.

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• ...The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out unless the government has a 'compelling interest' in censoring the Internet. The Second Amendment doesn't say you have the right to keep and bear arms until some madman plants a bomb. The Fourth Amendment doesn't say you have the right to be secure from search and seizure unless some FBI agent thinks you fit the profile of a terrorist. The government has no right to interfere with any of these freedoms under any circumstances.

  Harry Browne

  Thinking, Fbi Agents, Rights

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• For over five years this man [Winston Churchill] has been chasing around Europe like a madman in search of something he could set on fire. Unfortunately he again and again finds hirelings who open the gates of their country to this international incendiary.

  Adolf Hitler

  Country, Men, Fire

  Speech at the Reichstag, May 04, 1941. "Infamous Speeches: From Robespierre to Osama bin Laden". Book by Bob Blaisdell, 2012.

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• We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen.

  Jacobo Timerman

  Peace, War, Frontiers

  Jacobo Timerman (1982). “The longest war: Israel in Lebanon”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

  Denis Diderot

  Mad, Psychological, Harm

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• The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Stupidity, Needs, World

  Conversations with Goethe Johann Peter Eckermann 17 March (1830).

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• The poet is a madman lost in adventure.

  Paul Verlaine

  Travel, Adventure, Poet

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• He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet, finds that the poetry which he indites in his sober senses is beaten hollow by the poetry of madmen.

  Plato

  Art, Thinking, Doors

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• When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats.

  John le Carre

  Ignorance, Experts, World

  John le Carre (2004). “The Russia House: A Novel”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Wise, Men, Satisfaction

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• We, at least, are not loyal men: we confess to having more respect and honour for the raggedest child of the poorest labourer in Ireland today than for any, even the most virtuous, descendant of the long array of murderers, adulterers and madmen who have sat upon the throne of England.

  James Connolly

  Children, Men, Long

  James Connolly (1987). “Labour in Irish history ; The re-conquest of Ireland ; Socialism and nationalism”

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• To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

  Thomas Traherne

  Happiness, Thinking, Imagination

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• Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher; it is casting out a devil.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Devil, Casting, Philosopher

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Hero, Prejudice

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.76, Wildside Press LLC

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• It is reported here that the King of Prussia has gone mad and has been locked up. There would be nothing bad about that: at leastthat might of his would no longer be a menace, and you could breathe freely for a while. I much prefer madmen who are locked up to those who are not.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Kings, Mad, Prussia

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• Many young people adopt pleasures for which they have not the least taste, only because they are called by that name.... You mustallow that drunkenness, which is equally destructive to body and mind, is a fine pleasure. Gaming, that draws you into a thousand scraps, leaves you penniless, and gives you the air and manners of an outrageous madman, is another most exquisite pleasure, is it not? As to running after women, the consequences of that vice are only the loss of one's nose, the total destruction of health, and, not unfrequently, the being run through the body.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Running, Drinking, Loss

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• I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman.

  Tim Robbins

  Feet, Issues, Important

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• 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.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Broken, Done

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• As the dominant social ethic changed from a religious to a secular one, the problem of heresy disappeared, and the problem of madness arose and became of great social significance. In the next chapter I shall examine the creation of social deviants, and shall show that as formerly priests had manufactured heretics, so physicians, as the new guardians of social conduct and morality, began to manufacture madmen.

  Thomas Szasz

  Religious, Next, Physicians

  "The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement". Book by Thomas Szasz, 1970.

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• The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.

  Boris Pasternak

  Writing, Age, Faust

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• I'm just not one of these guys who, like, you know, woke up with a six-pack. I need Skittles. I have to eat very particularly and I have to work out like a madman. And then it looks like... okay.

  Max Greenfield

  Work Out, Guy, Needs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Anger and jealousy's all that he sells us, he's content when you're under his thumb. Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him, to survive it you play deaf and dumb.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Kindness, Media

  Song: No Time to Think, Album: Street Legal, 1978

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• I'd rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free.

  David Bowie

  Insanity, Roaming

  Song: All The Madmen, Album: The Man Who Sold the World, 1970

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