Mark Twain Quotes

Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

It's so nice to be insane, no one asks you to explain.

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?

If I know I'm going crazy, I must not be insane.

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.

We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.

A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.

Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail -- Assent -- and you are sane -- Demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- And handled with a Chain --

If you’re not crazy there’s something wrong with you. Willie Nelson

Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

We live in a world that tells us not to care, to consume everything in sight. It tells us that being cool and being an individual actually means buying what everyone else is buying and doing what everyone else is doing.

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

Anybody who's away from what's normal is just kind of pushed aside as, 'Oh, he's crazy.' But in reality, this world is crazy. It's just chaos everywhere. It's really hard to be part of this world, because it's very possessed. And very egocentric.

The world chooses to think what the world thinks.

Better be wrong with the many than right with the few.

The multitude is always in the wrong.

Men are herd animals, and prefer to go with the flow, especially when moving in the other direction is harsh.