Gary Zukav Quotes

A schizophrenic war is not an easy thing to deal with.

The world is becoming an immense military base, and that base is becoming a mental hospital the size of the world. Inside the nuthouse, which ones are crazy?

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.

The United States is a madhouse.

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

What I've tried to do is bring the madness out in the open. Keep it under wraps, and it erupts into wars and violence.

America is a lunatic asylum.

Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.

Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane.

He stares at me, and then leans back in his chair. "He's ill, Jacob." I say nothing. "He's a paragon schnitzophonic." "He's what?!" "Paragon schnitzophonic," repeats Uncle Al. "You mean paranoid schizophrenic?" "Sure. Whatever. But the bottom line is he's mad as a hatter.

War is the most readily available form of chaos.

Once the voices are in your head, it's either make a movie or kill a lot of people.

My God, is it possible that all the people have gone mad? The civil war now being inaugurated will be as horrible as his Satanic Majesty could desire.

I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy

We are in the final stages of egoic madness. Almost the whole world is fighting each other. We witnessed the final stages of egoic madness in the 20th century, and even now it still is playing itself out. It has not quite come to an end yet.

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.

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

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.

No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians.

The world is too violent right now.

I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.

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

... madness entered my veins.

... the work of lunatics.

I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also. People don't develop a mental illness because they are in the happiest of situations, usually. One doctor observed that it was rare when people were rich to become schizophrenic. If they were poor or didn't have too much money, then it was more likely.