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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards.

  Marguerite de Navarre

  Lovers, Helping, Drunkards

  "Heptaméron". Book by Marguerite de Navarre, Novel XXXVIII, 1558.

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• Better to be always in a minority of one with God - branded as madman, incendiary, fanatic, heretic, infidel - frowned upon by "the powers that be," and mobbed by the populace - or consigned ignominiously to the gallows, like him whose "soul is marching on," though his "body lies mouldering in the grave," or burnt to ashes at the stake like Wickliffe, or nailed to the cross like him who "gave himself for the world," - in defence of the RIGHT, than like Herod, having the shouts of a multitude crying, "It is the voice of a god, and not of a man!"

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Lying, Men, Voice

  "Valedictory". The last issue of "The Liberator" newspaper, fair-use.org. January 01, 1866.

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• A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.

  Prince Philip

  Gun, Hands, Bats

  "Prince Philip's Gun Views Stir Furor" by William D. Montalbano, articles.latimes.com. December 20, 1996.

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• The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Lasts, Logic, Madness

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• The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Devil, Saint

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman.

  Seneca the Younger

  Sometimes, Mental Illness, Pleasant

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• Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

  Diogenes

  Calumny Is, Noise, Calumny

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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 am not a madman or a nut.

  Abdul Qadeer Khan

  Nuts

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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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• Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out.

  Terry Pratchett

  Struggle, Fantasy, Discworld

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• The truth of life lies in the impulsiveness of matter. The mind of man has been poisoned by concepts. Do not ask him to be content, ask him only to be calm, to believe that he has found his place. But only the madman is really calm.

  Antonin Artaud

  Lying, Believe, Men

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.109, Univ of California Press

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• The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Orthodoxy, Lost Everything

  1908 Orthodoxy, ch.2.

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• Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Truth, Lying, Honor

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• I may be a lunatic, but then, wasn't my lunacy caused by a monster that lurks at the bottom of every human mind? Those who call me a madman and spurn me may become lunatics tomorrow. They harbor the same monster.

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

  Depression, Mind, Monsters

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• There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.

  John Dryden

  Depression, Mad, Insanity

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• And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm.

  Stephen Fry

  Depression, Mean, Mad

  Stephen Fry (2003). “Revenge: A Novel”, p.158, Random House

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• Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And-how many of us do know it? ... Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up. I suppose only a few are aware of all this. Isolated persons here and there. But the broad masses-what do they think? All these hundreds of thousands in this city, here. Do they imagine that they live in a sane world? Or do they guess, glimpse, the truth...?

  Philip K. Dick

  Depression, Thinking, Cities

  Philip K. Dick (2007). “Four novels of the 1960s”

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