Quotes with madmen

  • The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.

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  • Diogenes of Sinope Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
    Diogenes of Sinope
    Greek philosopher (412 - 323)
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  • Alexander Pope For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Anthony Hopkins I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.
    Anthony Hopkins
    Welsh and American actor (1937 - )
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  • J. G. Ballard 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
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Georges Bataille Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Victor Serge It's a question to ask ourselves if we're not mad. But who are the madmen, in God's name? Those who wonder about it, or the others? If we ever began to speak out loud, what would they do with us, tell me?
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  • John Dryden Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Cynthia Ozick The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.
    Cynthia Ozick
    American writer (1928 - )
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  • Alexander Pope The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bruce Sterling They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called "war" too. And there will still be no conventional war.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Bruce Sterling They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called 'war' too. And there will still be no conventional war.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Thomas Traherne To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Denis Diderot The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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