1.
We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.
Enoch Powell
2.
Anyone who believes in indefinite growth on a physically finite planet is either mad or an economist
David Attenborough
Anyone who trusts that boundless growth is possible on a finite globe is either mentally unbalanced or an economist.
3.
We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.
William Golding
4.
We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
Leonard Cohen
'We are not insane. We are people. We seek to love, and someone must absolve us for the routes we traverse to reach it, for the roads are numerous and murky, and we are fervent and harsh in our expedition.'
5.
Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
Claude Monet
I uncover more and more wondrous things daily, which can be overwhelming. My need to do it all is so intense that my head is overflowing with ideas.
6.
Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Moore's Axiom of Catastrophic Creativity: Every eighteen months, the minimum intellect required to annihilate the planet diminishes by one.
7.
I have read and re-read the Arusha Declaration and found nothing wrong with it except perhaps replacing a few commas here and there... it was clear for some of us that it would only be a mad man who would stand up and defend the Arusha Declaration.
Julius Nyerere
8.
Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we know we only preach the subversive witness of the Beatitudes, which have turned everything upside down.
Oscar Romero
9.
Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Truly, were it not for music, insanity would be a plausible outcome.
10.
If you really want to live your life to the fullest and realize your greatest potential, you must be willing to run the risk of making some people mad. People may not like what you do, people may not like how you do it, but these people are not living your life. You are!
Iyanla Vanzant
11.
The body is just a water bubble. The mind is like a mad monkey. Do not follow either the body or the mind. Follow the Conscience. It is above the mind. It is permanent. It is the voice of God, the voice of unchanging truth inside you.
Sathya Sai Baba
12.
God's everywhere, but I gotta go down (to church) to see him? Really? And he's mad at me down there, and I owe you money?
Bill Burr
'God is omnipresent, so why must I travel to a specific place of worship to encounter him? Could it be that he's displeased with me and I'm indebted to you?'
13.
You English are like mad bulls... you see red everywhere! What on earth has come over you, to heap on us such suspicion as is unworthy of a great nation. I regard this as a personal insult... You make it uncommonly difficult for a man to remain friendly to England.
Wilhelm II
14.
What really bothers me, what gets me mad, is when people don't know the story, but then pretend like they know the story. That's what bothers me. That's what makes me mad.
Ronnie Radke
15.
If you think it's necessary to judge me by my past, don't get mad when I put you there.
Wiz Khalifa
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All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
Christopher Morley
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I'm quite mad by nature, and it's my craziness that has saved me from extinction.
Marco Pantani
18.
It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
Diogenes
19.
At sixteen, I was a funny, skinny little thing, all eyelashes and legs. And then, suddenly people told me it was gorgeous. I thought they had gone mad.
Twiggy
20.
I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.
Louise Bourgeois
21.
The Lover is ever drunk with Love.
He is mad. She is free.
He sings with delight. She dances in ecstasy.
Caught by our own thoughts, we worry about everything.
But once we get drunk on that Love
Whatever will be, will be.
Rumi
22.
You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are!
Lewis Carroll
23.
The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda... But the [Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group] are mad, they want to fish here but this is Uganda.
Yoweri Museveni
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People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.
Stephen King
25.
I'd played dumbasses a lot. On Mad About You, I played a very dumb waitress and they saw me.
Lisa Kudrow
26.
It’s…it’s easy to have some little bitty website and use a fake name and sit there and…you know…talk bad about Jews all day and enjoy yourselves…uh, you know…getting your kicks ’cause you live in, you know…a…a one room apartment and your mad at life or whatever and wanna blame us…you know.
Alex Jones
27.
Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.
John Forbes Nash
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There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.
Umberto Eco
29.
To become successful you will have to get mad about your current situation. After you get mad, get motivated to do something about it.
Jon Jones
30.
People said, ‘You must be mad, or on drugs,’ which I found a bit disappointing. What about imagination? It reflects our time that people sooner assume you’re on drugs or mad, rather than free.
Noel Fielding
31.
If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags or some mad regime - Pol Pot or others - that had no concern for human beings.
Dick Durbin
32.
Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!
Marie Corelli
33.
Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.
Moshe Dayan
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If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.
Aleister Crowley
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A child born today in the United Kingdom stands a ten times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than to a university ... This can be taken as an indication that we are driving our children mad more effectively than we are genuinely educating them. Perhaps it is our way of educating them that is driving them mad.
R. D. Laing
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It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.
Jules Renard
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But what first motivated me wasn't anything I read. I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods.
Theodore Kaczynski
38.
I can't get mad about peoples' opinions, I always say that. That's their opinion. They got every right to say or think whatever they want to say and think. And whatever they say and think don't affect my life.
Derrick Rose
39.
No one can make me cry
Make me laugh
Make me smile
Or drive me mad like she does
Kenny Chesney
40.
Friendship was another illusion like love, though it did not reach the same mad heights. People pretended that they were friends, when the fact was they were brought together by force of circumstances.
R.K. Narayan
41.
My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
Natalie Portman
42.
The man is clear in his mind, but his soul is mad.
Dennis Hopper
43.
Mad, is he? Then I hope that he will bite some of my other generals!
George III
44.
We have a lot of black Anglo-Saxons. Their skin is black, but their brain is white. When I get real mad at them, I call them graham crackers.
Paul Mooney
45.
If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.
Ramakrishna
46.
I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices
Virginia Woolf
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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.
Charles Mackay
48.
The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.
Sigmund Freud
49.
I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
Sylvia Plath
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August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad.
George Monbiot