Madness Quotes
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Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.
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After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.
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Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.
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Anger is simply momentary madness, and sometimes there is strength in silence. After all, he is only throwing words, not stones.
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What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me?
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I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of them are without work and die of hunger on the streets. I want to secure employment and livelihood not only to part of the human race, but for all. I will not have the enrichment of a few at the expense of the community. At present the machine is helping a small minority to live on the exploitation of the masses. The motive force of this minority is not humanity or love of their kind, but greed and avarice.
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Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.
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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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When love is not madness it is not love.
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I wanted to see something in full daylight; I was sated with the pleasure and comfort of the half light; I had the same desire for the daylight as for water and air. And if seeing was fire, I required the plenitude of fire, and if seeing would infect me with madness, I madly wanted that madness.
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If you want to kill somebody, conquer his heart, Then leave slowly and leave them between death and madness.
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The madness is running wild!
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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
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There is no element of genius without some form of madness.
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Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness.
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One couldn't even measure roughness. So, by luck, and by reward for persistence, I did found the theory of roughness, which certainly I didn't expect and expecting to found one would have been pure madness.
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Speak out. You've got to speak out against the madness
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There is a madness in loving you, a lack of reason that makes it feel so flawless.
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Turn away. From the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and look at the light.
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I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other poets have been.
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The sound of madness is life. It's waking up in the morning to your alarm clock, your kid crying for you, hearing the sound of the city, it's everything. Madness isn't necessarily a negative thing, it can be a positive thing. You know, hearing them cry for you, if you have children, is a great thing, it's your child.
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Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.
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How strange or odd some'er I bear myself, As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on.
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And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot.
