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• Let me get this straight. A mentally ill madman goes on a shooting spree to assassinate a United States Congressperson... and the lesson learned by liberals is that guns must be taken away from law-abiding citizens? Really? What’s the connection between a mentally ill nutcase and perfectly sane, responsible people? There is none.

  Wayne Allyn Root

  Taken, Gun, Law

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• People think they know me from my songs. But my repertoire of songs is so wide-ranging that you'd have to be a madman to figure out the characteristics of the person who wrote all those songs.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Thinking, People

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• Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.

  Mick Jagger

  President, Actors, Want

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• Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.

  William Shakespeare

  Dark, Love Is, House

  William Shakespeare, Michael Hattaway (2000). “As You Like It”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

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• It's very contradictory for a man to teach about the murder in corporate capitalism, to isolate and expose the murderes behind it, to instruct that these madmen are completely without stops, are licentious, totally depraved — and then not make adequate preparations to defend himself from the madman's attack. Either they don't really believe their own spiel or they harbor some sort of subconscious death wish

  George Jackson

  Believe, Men, Preparation

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• For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I cried, "Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks." Thus I became a madman.

  Khalil Gibran

  Blessed, Soul, Thieves

  Khalil Gibran (1918). “The Madman”, p.1, Library of Alexandria

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• It is pleasant at times to play the madman.

  Seneca the Younger

  Play, Pleasant

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• As though God had turned away from the wise, and written his decrees, not in the mind of man but in the entrails of beasts, or left them to be proclaimed by the inspiration and instinct of fools, madmen, and birds. Such is the unreason to which terror can drive mankind!

  Baruch Spinoza

  Wise, Inspiration, Men

  "Tractatus Theologico-Politicus". Book by Baruch Spinoza, Preface, 1677.

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• I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to you, you train yourself for a lifetime. Every single day of your life, some wild new thing to be done. You write to please yourself. You write for the joy of writing. Then your public reads you and it begins to gather around your selling a potato peeler in an alley, you know. The enthusiasm, the joy itself draws me. So that means every day of my life I've written. When the joy stops, I'll stop writing.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Mean, Typewriters

  "Ray Bradbury's Lost Interview On Madmen, Writing, and Cars" by Chris Higgins, mentalfloss.com. April 28, 2015.

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• When I wake up I look like a madman, like something out of a horror movie! That's why I sleep alone. But the funny thing is that I'm very impeccable and clean before I go to bed. It's just like right before I'm going out.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Sleep, Funny Things, Bed

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• One man with an idea in his head is in danger of being considered a madman: two men with the same idea in common may be foolish, but can hardly be mad; ten men sharing an idea begin to act, a hundred draw attention as fanatics, a thousand and society begins to tremble, a hundred thousand and there is war abroad, and the cause has victories tangible and real; and why only a hundred thousand? Why not a hundred million and peace upon the earth? You and I who agree together, it is we who have to answer that question.

  William Morris

  Real, War, Men

  William Morris, Norman Kelvin (1999). “William Morris on Art and Socialism”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• If to break loose from the bounds of reason, and to want that restraint of examination and judgment which keeps us from choosing or doing the worst, be liberty, true liberty, madmen and fools are the only freemen: but yet, I think, nobody would choose to be mad for the sake of such liberty, but he that is mad already.

  John Locke

  Thinking, Mad, Liberty

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• There is
  A madman inside of you
  Who is always running for office

  Hafez

  Running, Office, Running For Office

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• Great minds struggle to cure diseases so that people may live longer, but only madmen ask why. One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Struggle, Order, People

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• I love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in one

  Jessica Lange

  Artist, Men, Three

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• When anaesthetics were invented they were thought to be wicked as being an attempt to thwart God's will. Insanity was thought to be due to diabolic possession, and it was believed that demons inhabiting a madman could be driven out by inflicting pain upon him, and so making them uncomfortable. In pursuit of this opinion, lunatics were treated for years on end with systematic and conscientious brutality.

  Bertrand Russell

  Pain, Years, Insanity

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.107, Routledge

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• Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the ways of madmen and men of evil counsel, at least in my judgment.

  Euripides

  Life Is Short, Men, Hands

  Euripides, G. S. Kirk (1979). “Bacchae of Euripides”, p.58, CUP Archive

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• The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

  Salvador Dali

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn't be a great moral teacher. He'd be either a lunatic on a level with a man who says he's a poached egg or else he'd be the devil of hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.

  C. S. Lewis

  Teacher, Jesus, Son

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• I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.

  J. G. Ballard

  Believe, Night, Imagination

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

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• If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Depression, Believe

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• True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Dreamer

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.6, Modern Library

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• Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Fun, Believe, Population Problem

  "The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth" by Kenneth E. Boulding, 1966.

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• A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.

  Steven Pressfield

  Children, Believe, Heart

  "Do the Work: Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way". Book by Steven Pressfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2011.

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• There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Reality, Dope, Data

  "The Illuminatus! Trilogy". Book by Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Shea, Part I : The Eye in the Pyramid (p. 176 of 1988 edition), 1975.

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