Irrational Behavior Quotes

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.

There is always some madness in love.

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. Events which excite those feelings will produce wonderful effects.

When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.

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

If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.

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

When a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune: so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.

A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

Irrational exuberance

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

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends.

Anger is a momentary madness.

Politics is irrational. Politics is about human beings with their frailties and perversions and distortions or perception, who prioritise things according to their conviction.

Reason is the slave of passion.

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

They've lost their minds.