Madmen Quotes

When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats.

Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.

It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities .

The genius of art finds sanctuary among children and madmen to survive.That is who we are.

I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself

Every madman considers everyone else a madman.

A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,’ said he. ‘Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.

Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision.

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

There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.

Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.

Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.

I am very active, ... I like to ride horses. I golf. I perform onstage. I am a madman onstage.

Anger and jealousy's all that he sells us, he's content when you're under his thumb. Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him, to survive it you play deaf and dumb.

Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman... Which is probably the same thing!

At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.

Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.

Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted advisor.

It is pleasant at times to play the madman.

Only a madman would give good for evil

It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman.

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

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.

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.

Gilles Deleuze believed that every society needed a madman so we could feel better about ourselves. I do my best to fill that role.

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

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

He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen.

Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.

The madman who knows that he is mad is close to sanity.

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

I’ve told you before, I love like a madman,” he said. “Immoderate, jealous, possessive...I’m absolutely intolerable.

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.

Let's sum up: an unknown number of enemies with unknown capabilities, supported by a gang of madmen, packs of attack animals, and superhumanly intelligent pocket change.

Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?

That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.

For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.

Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.

You know, people talk about [Richard] Nixon's "madman theory." We don't really know much about that. It was in memoirs, by somebody else.

The fellow is either a madman or a poet.

Lovers and madmen have such seething brainsSuch shaping fantasies, that apprehendMore than cool reason ever comprehends.

Blackmail threats are e-mails from madmen.

My father told me that it is only a mad man that keeps bushy hairs. I asked him, "what about the great men with bushy hairs?". He replied, "education had made them mad, so study to be wise and sane.

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

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.

The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.