Fritz Leiber Quotes

If we weren't all crazy, we'd just go insane.

As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever.

I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.

Mad is he? Then I hope he will bite some of my other generals.

Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.

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

America is a lunatic asylum.

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.

Madness is a waste of time. It creates nothing.

I think that life is messy and that human beings are insane.

In the end, madness is worse than injustice, and justice far sweeter than freedom.

Liberty may be of no more use Than stirring up the flame of civil wars; Then, by disorder fatal to the world, One wants no king, the other wants no equal.

Insanity is contagious.

Crazy gets all the knives.

Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.

It's true we're all a little insane.

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

What in the world are you thinking?” She sounded pretty flustered. “I try not to think,” Leo admitted. “It interferes with being nuts. Just concentrate on moving that Celestial bronze. Echo, you ready?

And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it.

The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.

I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.

Mystical state, madness, how it frightens people. How utterly crazy they become, remote, rude, peculiar, cruel, taunting, farouche as wild beasts who have smelled danger, the unthinkable.

All I want to be is normally insane.