Browsing Topic Best Lunatic Quotes

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

…By a ‘silly’ theory I mean one which may be held at the time when one is talking or writing professionally, but which only an inmate of a lunatic asylum would think of carrying into daily life. … It must not be supposed that the men who maintain these theories and beliefs are ‘silly’ people. Only very acute and learned men could have thought of anything so odd or defended anything so preposterous against the continual protests of common sense.

From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.

Strange times are these, in which we live, forsooth ;When young and old are taught in Falsehood’s school:–And the man who dares to tell the truth,Is called at once a lunatic and fool.

Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

America’s always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That’s one of the things we’re probably known for around the world, I would imagine.

You know, it’s a sad and unfortunate state of affairs that you have to live in a world where eight-year-olds refuse to believe in anything that they cannot touch or measure, and anyone who happens to see a thing that is invisible to most people is immediately branded a lunatic.

The lunatic fringe is more like a Spanish shawl, where the fringe makes up the entire garment.

In describing today’s accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.

This is a powerful message from our government: we will not be intimidated by bombs; we will not be intimidated by poison; this is America, if you’re a violent, paranoid lunatic, you must use a gun!

Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!

Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.

Clarice has a curious chemical reaction to boredom and the result can be similar to dynamite in the hands of a lunatic.

Nature seems to exult in abounding radicality, extremism, anarchy. If we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we wouldn’t believe the world existed. In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe. … No claims of any and all revelations could be so far-fetched as a single giraffe.

Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.

Most of my favorite people in my life are gay. It’s something I’m super passionate about, because whenever I would see my friends get bullied, or my brother get hurt for his sexuality, I would become a raging lunatic.

I say, Watson,’ he whispered, ‘would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?’ ‘Not in the least,’ I answered in astonishment. ‘Ah, that’s lucky,’ he said, and not another word would he utter that night.

The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with the cartoonists. Syndicates are essentially agents. Now, can you imagine a novelist giving his literary agent the ownership of his characters and all reprint, television, and movie rights before the agent takes the manuscript to a publisher? Obviously, an author would have to be a raving lunatic to agree to such a deal, but virtually every cartoonist does exactly that when a syndicate demands ownership before agreeing to sell the strip to newspapers.

People think I rush around all day long like a raving lunatic. I’m much more relaxed than that.

Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail.

Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?

Ah, said a voice from the doorway, having your annual ‘everyone thinks Will is a lunatic’ meeting, are you? It’s biannual, said Jem. And no, this is not that meeting.

When you have a liberal class that no longer functions, when those people who traditionally defend and care about a civil society no longer do so, then you cede power to very frightening, deformed figures, all of which we are watching leap up around the fringes of our political establishment – this lunatic fringe, which has largely taken over the Republican Party.

When I cease to preach salvation by faith in Jesus put me into a lunatic asylum, for you may be sure that my mind is gone.

…it seemed to me I was living in an insane asylum of my own making. I wnt about with all these fantastic figures: centaurs, nymphs, satyrs, gods and goddesses, as though they were patients and I was analyzing them. I read a Greek or Negro myth as if a lunatic were telling me his anamnesis.

You could see a man talking to himself as just plain crazy, or read about the criminal on the front page of the daily paper and ponder the corruption of the human heart, without having to think about whether the criminal or lunatic said something about your own fate.

Sure, I’m gray-shading the line that separates stable and crazy, but the point is, there is a line. And I haven’t completely crossed over to lunatic.

Jesus was either a Liar, a Lunatic, or Lord

And I know your next move, I watch you so much, ‘There’s been no proven link between the secular state of Iraq and al-Qaeda!’ Come on. They both think we’re Satan. Isn’t that a nice starting point? Why are you so loathe to believe they might have each other on lunatic speed dial?

I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God.