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• When we can sit in the face of insanity or dislikes and be free from the need to make it different, then we are free.

  Nelson Mandela

  Freedom, Different, Needs

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• Want a good body? Work at it. Want to be a success? Work at it. Want to be truly exceptional? Be a touch insane... You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

  Henry Rollins

  Insane, Body, Want

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

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• The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is a violent one.

  Philip K. Dick

  Insane, Empires, Violence

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.265, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously prepare to make unlivable.

  Murray Leinster

  Cosmos, Symptoms, Humans

  "The Time Tunnel". Book by Murray Leinster, Chapter 4, 1964.

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• The facts of the matter are that we have known for a long time that diagnoses are often not useful or reliable, but we have nevertheless continued to use them. We now know that we cannot distinguish insanity from sanity.

  David Rosenhan

  Long, Facts, Use

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• Insanity has infected all the central banks of the world.

  David Stockman

  World, Central Banks

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• We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the next. Give me a man whose parts are all aligned in agreement and I’ll show you madness. We walk a narrow path, insanity to each side. A man without contradictions to balance him will soon veer off.

  Mark Lawrence

  Block, Men, Giving

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• But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt to keep up the assumed role of insanity.

  Nellie Bly

  Islands, Insane, Roles

  Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.6, Nellie Bly

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• The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The result is that the average individual does not experience the separateness and isolation the fully schizophrenic person feels. He feels at ease among those who suffer from the same deformation; in fact, it is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the insane society - and he may suffer so much from the incapacity to communicate that it is he who may become psychotic.

  Erich Fromm

  Home, Average, Sick

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• Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.

  Billy Joel

  Lonely, Honesty, Insane

  Song: Honesty, Album: 52nd Street, 1978

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• You see, insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

  Joseph Kesselring

  Running, I Love My Family, Arsenic

  Arsenic and Old Lace act 2 (1941)

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• A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

  Franz Kafka

  Writing, Monsters

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• My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Lines, Littles, Way

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (2009). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.618, The Floating Press

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• Their coverage on the Fox News Channel has been atrocious. The stuff that comes out of Sean Hannity's mouth has been infuriating. The stuff that Bill O'Reilly says has been illogical. You go up and down the schedule and it's insanity over there. The number of lies, perpetuated, promoted by Fox News is just shameful and it hurts everybody.

  David Shuster

  Hurt, Lying, Numbers

  "MSNBC's David Shuster Loves 'Brilliant' Obama; Hates 'Atrocious' Fox News". Article by Scott Whitlock, www.newsbusters.org. May 01, 2009.

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• Religion is a collective insanity.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Atheism, Positive Atheism, Collectives

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin “The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin”, Library of Alexandria

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• Choice implies consciousness - a high degree of consciousness. Without it, you have no choice. Choice begins the moment you disidentify from the mind and its conditioned patterns, the moment you become present....Nobody chooses dysfunction, conflict, pain. Nobody chooses insanity. They happen because there is not enough presence in you to dissolve the past, not enough light to dispel the darkness. You are not fully here. You have not quite woken up yet. In the meantime, the conditioned mind is running your life.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Running, Spiritual, Pain

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• Once the pain-body has taken you over, you want more pain. You become a victim or a perpetrator. You want to inflict pain, or you want to suffer pain, or both. There isn't really much difference between the two. You are not conscious of this, of course, and will vehemently claim that you do not want pain. But look closely and you will find that your thinking and behavior are designed to keep the pain going, for yourself and others. If you were truly conscious of it, the pattern would dissolve, for to want more pain is insanity, and nobody is consciously insane.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Taken, Thinking

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.38, New World Library

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• Was Luther crazy? Perhaps. But if he was, our prayer is that God would send to this earth an epidemic of such insanity that we too may taste of the righteousness that is by faith alone.

  R. C. Sproul

  Prayer, Crazy, Epidemics

  R. C. Sproul (2010). “Classic Teachings on the Nature of God”, p.72, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Religion is induced insanity.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Anarchy, Heresy

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• To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.

  Aristotle

  Climbing, Anarchy, Sober

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• If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.

  Peggy Noonan

  Crazy, Faults, Madness

  Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

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• I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn't stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could, what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do. That's all there is to it. Really, nothing more.

  Oskar Schindler

  People, Sadism, Brutality

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• So man's insanity is heaven's sense, and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.

  Moby

  Men, Heaven, Woe

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• It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Party, Believe, Agendas

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• Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then be the latter two who would be thought to be sick and deranged and the former not!

  Aristotle

  Men, Two, Sick

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