Ralph Peters Quotes

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night.

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

I think everybody's nuts.

Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

If we weren't all crazy, we'd just go insane.

I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.

Mad is he? Then I hope he will bite some of my other generals.

In revolutions, especially democratic revolutions, madmen, not those so called by courtesy, but genuine madmen, have played a very considerable political part. One thing is certain, and that is that a condition of semi-madness is not unbecoming at such times, and often even leads to success.

Madness is a waste of time. It creates nothing.

I think that life is messy and that human beings are insane.

Insanity is contagious.

Crazy gets all the knives.

Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.

Mystical state, madness, how it frightens people. How utterly crazy they become, remote, rude, peculiar, cruel, taunting, farouche as wild beasts who have smelled danger, the unthinkable.

All I want to be is normally insane.

When you get to mixing sex and religion, it will make anybody crazy.

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

Eccentricty had flowered into madness.

The logic of a madman is a sane man's confusion.

Too much sanity may be madness!