Insanity Quotes

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

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

A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.

When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.

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.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

The general program of the eugenicist is clear—it is to improve the race by inducing young people to make a more reasonable selection of marriage mates; to fall in love intelligently. It also includes the control by the state of the propagation of the mentally incompetent. It does not imply the destruction of the unfit either before or after birth.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

To punish madmen is as great folly as to sympathize with their condition

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

… politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia

There's no shame in being crazy.

You people are all insane. How I ended up with you, I'll never know." Breeze laughed. "Now, that's a lie, Cett. You know exactly how you ended up joining with us. We threatened to kill you if you didn't!

Madness passed me by, she smiled hi. I nodded.

The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the feeble-minded and insane classes, coupled as it is with steady restriction among all the thrifty, energetic and superior stocks constitutes a national and race danger which is impossible to exaggerate. I feel that the source from which the stream of madness is fed should be cut off and sealed before another year has passed.

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

That Martí is a madman — but a dangerous madman.

The human race consists of the dangerously insane and such as are not.

Lottery men do also tax themselves in the general, though out of hopes of Advantage in particular: A Lottery therefore is properly a Tax upon unfortunate self-conceited fools; men that have good opinion of their own luckiness, or that have believed some Fortune-teller or Astrologer, who had promised them great success about the time and place of the Lottery …. Now because the world abounds with this kinde of fools, it is not fit that every man that will may cheat every man that would be cheated; but it is rather ordained, that the Sovereign should have the Guardianship of these fools, or that some Favourite should beg the Sovereigns right of taking advantage of such men’s folly, even as in the case of Lunaticks and Idiots.

Nuclear weapons are only good for deterring. It is insane that two men, sitting on opposite ends of the world, should be able to decide to bring an end to civilization.