Madmen Quotes - Page 11

• The madmen seem to live on forever, don't they?

  Lauren Bacall

  Forever, Seems

  "One Hell of a Dame: Remembering Lauren Bacall". Interview with Alex Simon, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2014.

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• So long as men denounce each other as mentally sick (homosexual, addicted, insane, and so forth) so that the madman can always be considered the Other, never the Self mental illness will remain an easily exploitable concept, and Coercive Psychiatry a flourishing institution.

  Thomas Szasz

  Men, Self, Long

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1997). “The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement”, p.170, Syracuse University Press

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• Since Don Quixote de la Mancha is a crazy fool and a madman, and since Sancho Panza, his squire, knows it, yet, for all that, serves and follows him, and hangs on these empty promises of his, there can be no doubt that he is more of a madman and a fool than his master.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Crazy, Doubt, Promise

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1950). “The adventures of Don Quixote”, Penguin Classics

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• The only and absolute perfect union of two is when a baby hangs suspended in its mother's womb, like a tiny madman in a padded cell, attached to her, feeling her blood and hormones, and moods play through its body, feeling her feelings.

  Diane Ackerman

  Mother, Baby, Cells

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.98, Vintage

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• The best thing about being an artist, instead of a madman or someone who writes letters to the editor, is that you get to engage in satisfying work. Even if you never publish a word, you have something important to pour yourself into.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Artist, Editors

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.236, Anchor

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• We have to have armies! We have to have military power! We have to have police forces, whether it's police in a great city or police in an international scale to keep those madmen from taking over the world and robbing the world of its liberties.

  Billy Graham

  Military, Army, Power

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• In order to win over Paris and appear, in the eyes of all Europe, an absolute innovator, the most advanced of all, I urge you to get to work with all your heart, resolute on being bolder, crazier, more advanced, surprising, eccentric, incomprehensible, and grotesque than anybody else in music. I urge you to be a madman.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Heart, Eye, Winning

  "Modernism: An Anthology". Book by Lawrence Rainey, p. 2, 2005.

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• Society is older than government. But every persisting society implies the existence of government and laws; for a society without government and laws is at once overturned by its madmen and scoundrels and lapses into barbarism.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Government, Law, Lapses

  William Batchelder Greene (1875). “Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic, and Financial Fragments”, p.21

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• According to our social science, we can be or become wise in all matters of secondary importance, but we have to be resigned to utter ignorance in the most important respect: we cannot have any knowledge regarding the ultimate principles of our choices, i.e. regarding their soundness or unsoundness... We are then in the position of beings who are sane and sober when engaged in trivial business and who gamble like madmen when confronted with serious issues.

  Leo Strauss

  Wise, Ignorance, Issues

  "Natural Right and History". Book by Leo Strauss, 1953.

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• The fellow is either a madman or a poet.

  Horace

  Poet, Fellows

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• No man can expect to find a friend without faults; nor can he propose himself to be so to another. Without reciprocal mildness and temperance there can be no continuance of friendship. Every man will have something to do for his friend, and something to bear with in him. The sober man only can do the first; and for the latter, patience is requisite. It is better for a man to depend on himself, than to be annoyed with either a madman or a fool.

  Owen Feltham

  Friends, Men, Annoyed

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• If I am mad, then who on the face of the earth is sane? If you are sane, then there is no madman in the world.

  Saib Tabrizi

  Mad, World, Earth

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• Madness is consistent; which is more than can be said for poor reason. Whatever may be the ruling passion at the time continues equally so throughout the whole delirium, though it should last for life. Madmen are always constant in love; which no man in his senses ever was. Our passions and principles are steady in frenzy; but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

  Laurence Sterne

  Passion, Men, May

  Richard Griffith, Laurence Sterne (1794). “The Posthumous Works of Laurence Sterne: ...”

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• All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  War, Promise, Politician

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.22, Faber & Faber

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• Don't any of you realize there's only one life between that madman and the Presidency?

  Mark Hanna

  Government, Realizing, Presidency

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• As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we have at once the sense of it covering everything and the sense of it leaving everything out.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Simplicity, Leaving, Insane

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Along with supernature and science, there is one other major source of horror movies disorder: the human psyche, most commonly homicidal psychosis. Unlike 'mad' scientists, horror-movies madmen are not visionary obsessives, glorifying in scientific reason as they single-mindedly purse their researches. They are, rather, victims of overpowering impulses that well up from within; monsters brought forth by the sleep of reason, not by its attractions.

  Andrew Tudor

  Sleep, Psychosis, Mad

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• It is thus religion infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity and fanaticism: if he has a heated imagination it drives him on to fury; if he has activity, it makes him a madman, who is frequently as cruel to himself, as he is dangerous and incommodious to others: if, on the contrary, he be phlegmatic or of a slothful habit, he becomes melancholy and is useless to society.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Atheist, Men, Vanity

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• As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a little from the madman.

  Samuel Johnson

  Greatness, Thinking, Littles

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.96

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• He who hides his madman, dies voiceless.

  Henri Michaux

  Voiceless, Dies

  Henri Michaux (1994). “Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984”, p.13, Univ of California Press

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• That's why I sleep alone. My hair is curly, and that's why I have my ponytail. I look like a madman, like something out of a horror movie.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Sleep, Hair, Looks

  Interview with Sigrid Agren, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2009.

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• I may play a total madman on TV, but I'm really just a very unbalanced guy at home. However, when it comes to stocks, I believe in being rigorous and methodical, not crazy. There's no madness to my method.

  Jim Cramer

  Crazy, Believe, Home

  "Mad Money". Book by Jim Cramer, www.today.com. March 14, 2005.

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• All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.

  Bram Stoker

  Men, Mad, World

  Bram Stoker (2006). “Dracula - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.112, Prestwick House Inc

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• If it so happened that I had once written a best-seller, this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naivete, and I would take very good care never to do the same again. If I had a message for my contemporaries, I said, it was surely this: Be anything you like, be madmen, drunks, and bastards of every shape and form, but at all costs avoid one thing: success.

  Thomas Merton

  Cost, Care, Shapes

  Thomas Merton (2002). “Seeds”

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• The real drug is to train like a madman, really like a madman.

  Aleksandr Karelin

  Real, Drug, Train

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