John Updike Quotes About Madness

Quotes about: Madness

• A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

  John Updike

  Leadership, Men, People

  John Updike (2012). “The Coup: A Novel”, p.172, Random House

• Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

  John Updike

  Government, Peculiar, Madness

  FaceBook post by John Updike from Dec 24, 2014

• So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

  John Updike

  Rotting, Too Much, Dandelions

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Redux”, p.120, Random House

• To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.

  John Updike

  Funny, Sex, War

  Self-Consciousness ch. 4 (1989)

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