John Adams Quotes

In revolutions, especially democratic revolutions, madmen, not those so called by courtesy, but genuine madmen, have played a very considerable political part. One thing is certain, and that is that a condition of semi-madness is not unbecoming at such times, and often even leads to success.

I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.

The human race consists of the dangerously insane and such as are not.

That Martí is a madman — but a dangerous madman.

And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium.

Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.

'Insanity... I like it."

No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.

As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.

If we lose our sanity ... We can but howl the lugubrious howl of idiots, the howl of the utterly lost howling their nowhereness.

If Peter Pan had been real, he would've gone mad and killed everyone in Neverland.

Madness breeds madness.

He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.

That's the nice thing about insanity: evil people kill you, but crazy ones try to make you understand.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

The United States is a madhouse.