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The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

—Ben Franklin
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

—Friedrich Nietzsche
There's a difference between maniacs and crazy people. A maniac will beat 90 people to death with a steel dildo. A crazy person will kill 90 people with a steel dildo but will wear a Bugs Bunny costume while doing it.

—George Carlin
A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on the level with a man who says he is a poached egg - or he would be the devil of hell. You must take your choice. Either this was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us.

—C. S. Lewis
Inside every sane person, there's a madman struggling to get out.

—Terry Pratchett
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

—Aristotle
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

—Charles Bukowski
Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?

—Arthur C. Clarke
I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.

—Anonymous
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

—R. D. Laing
Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, political parties, nations, and eras it's the rule.

—Friedrich Nietzsche
The real thing in the mind of this president [George W. Bush] is he wants to reshape the Middle East and make it a model. He absolutely believes it. I always thought Henry Kissinger was a disaster because he lies like most people breathe and you can't have that in public life. But if it were Kissinger this time around, I'd actually be relieved because I'd know that the madness would be tied to some oil deal. But in this case, what you see is what you get. This guy believes he's doing God's work.

—Seymour Hersh
Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each of their screams was ours. When they were humiliated, we were humiliated. The U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq - mostly volunteers in a poverty draft from small towns and poor urban neighborhoods - are victims just as much as the Iraqis of the same horrendous process, which asks them to die for a victory that will never be theirs.

—Arundhati Roy
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

—Sam Levenson
I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I'm always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I'm on a holiday.

—Penelope Cruz
Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.

—Aldous Huxley
Insanity runs in my family.
It practically gallops.

—Arsenic and Old Lace
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.

—John Lennon
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

—Oscar Levant
Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

—Unknown

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