Insane Quotes - Page 28

• We never have that thought! The whole object is to bite off more than you can chew. John [Du Prez] always says, Eric thinks of something completely insane and insists we go in that direction. It's the correct way to look at things and the correct place to start, I think.

  Eric Idle

  Thinking, Way, Eric

  "Not The Messiah (He's A Very Naughty Boy) - Eric Idle interview". IndieLondon Interview, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.

  Noam Chomsky

  Looks, October, Truth Is

  "How to destroy the future" by Noam Chomsky, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2013.

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• Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Doubt, Certainty

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1989). “On the Genealogy of Morals”, Vintage

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• To secure the safety of the navigation of the Mississippi River I would slay millions. On that point I am not only insane, but mad... I think I see one or two quick blows that will astonish the natives of the South and will convince them that, though to stand behind a big cottonwood and shoot at a passing boat is good sport and safe, it may still reach and kill their friends and families hundreds of miles off. For every bullet shot at a steamboat, I would shoot a thousand 30-pounder Parrots into even helpless towns on Red, Ouachita, Yazoo, or wherever a boat can float or soldier march.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Sports, Thinking, Blow

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• By far the greater part of violence that humans inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or mentally deranged, but of normal, respectable citizens service of the collective ego. One can go so far as to say that on this planet "normal" equals insane. What is it that lies at the root of this insanity? Complete identification with thought and emotion, that is to say, ego.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Lying, Roots, Insanity

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• Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.

  Philip Wylie

  Lying, Destiny, Men

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• Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement.

  Peter Kreeft

  Simple, Achievement, Ordinary

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• Much more than trying to focus on the battlefield of the war, it was the central place that German doctors occupied within Nazism, the omnipotent and insane idea of wanting to generically modify an entire nation. This idea was not on the outskirts of Nazi ideology, it was the heart of movement, that's what intrigued me. Mengele is the most extreme expression of this idea.

  Lucia Puenzo

  War, Heart, Doctors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• North Korea is creating its own time zone. It's going to push the country's time back a half hour. So it's not bad enough that they don't have food and they're ruled by an insane dictator. Now they have to wait until 8:00 to watch 'Wheel of Fortune.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Country, Korea, Time Zones

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• President Obama awarded a National Medal of Arts to author Stephen King. You know, because if there's anyone who can relate to the story of a guy trapped in a mansion that's driving him insane, it's Obama.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Art, Kings, Guy

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• Because we are limited in our knowledge, even the sanest of us are slightly insane. Our limitations are a kind of madness, and we can only choose to deny we are mad, and so descend into a dark spiral of total insanity, or accept we are mad and embark on a quest to regain our true and wholesome sanity

  Dwight Longenecker

  Dark, Mad, Insanity

  Dwight Longenecker (2014). “The Romance of Religion: Fighting for Goodness, Truth, and Beauty”, p.5, Thomas Nelson

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• I believe there's something in the Bible about 'Thou shalt not call anyone insane who owns and is competent with more firearms than you own sharp sticks.'

  Andrew Plotkin

  Believe, Sticks, Competent

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• I had just come off doing a lot of commercials when I did Go, so a part of the fast pace and efficiency comes from the discipline I had to learn from telling stories in 25-second increments, and that type of discipline is insane.

  Doug Liman

  Discipline, Pace, Stories

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• I had fallen out of my secure world, precipitated beyond the territories I had only begun to control so skillfully. What a foolish step to take. What an insane move to make.

  Francesca Marciano

  Moving, World, Territory

  Francesca Marciano (1999). “Rules of the Wild: A Novel of Africa”, Vintage Books

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• Every day spend at least an hour in a forest to stay healthy, and much more than this, to stay sane in this insane world!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Insane World, Healthy, Forests

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• Nietzsche's my favorite. He's just insane.

  Mike Tyson

  My Favorite

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• There's nothing on my mind that couldn't be expressed by a long insane outburst of hysterical rage.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Long, Mind, Rage

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• Why does merely attempting to understand Reality so often seem to lead to going insane?

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Reality, Doe, Attempting

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• Mussolini once said that saints are insane people. What about those who believe in saints? Are they sane?

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Believe, People, Saint

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• You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?

  Rebecca Wells

  People, Hopeful, Together

  Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

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• I'd love to play someone who's insane or something, just so I can go flake out. I like a superhero. I know that's ironic. That's where we are, but seriously, it'd be really cool to play a superhero.

  Christian Serratos

  Play, Superhero, Ironic

  "Exclusive: Twilight Saga Spotlights Human Actress Christian Serratos". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2010.

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• It was declared by Congress that marijuana makes people insane. But . . . lawyers, defense lawyers, got the idea, OK, I can use this for an insanity defense.

  Noam Chomsky

  Marijuana, Ideas, People

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• The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable.

  Errol Morris

  World, Facts, Tolerable

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• Very clever people are often very clever at creating rationalisations for insane beliefs.

  PZ Myers

  Clever, Creating, People

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• A lot of the time I'm semi-insane, but there is a slight bit of intelligence there.

  Joe Strummer

  Bits

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