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Letter "M" » madmen
«To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.»
«When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.»
Author: Joan Didion
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Journalist,
Novelist)
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Keywords:
deceiving,
fashionable,
hysteria,
imperative,
imperatives,
join us,
madmen,
pragmatic,
thin,
whine
«There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.»
«The worst of madmen is a saint run mad»
«The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
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Critic,
Novelist)
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Keywords:
appearance,
deride,
derided,
derides,
dislike,
dread,
familiar,
first appearance,
hence,
innovator,
innovators,
madmen,
notions,
persecuted,
persecutes
«We have to have armies! We have to have military power! We have to have police forces, whether it's police in a great city or police in an international scale to keep those madmen from taking over the world and robbing the world of its liberties»
Author: Billy Graham
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Keywords:
armies,
International,
international scale,
liberties,
madmen,
military,
military force,
military power,
police,
police force,
robbing,
scale,
taking over,
The International
«The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.»
«The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse»
«There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.»