Jack Welch Quotes

I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.

If you were a sane woman, I would, of course, behave in a more rational fashion. Since you are a lunatic, however, this is the only way.

When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally.

I think irrationality is one of the scariest things in the world.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

You'll find superstition a contagious thing. Some people let it get the better of them.

He's thinking more with his heart than with his brain.

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity.

That crack-brained harlequin and semi-lunatic, George Francis Train! He is as destitute of principle as he is of sense, and is fast gravitating toward a lunatic asylum. He may be of use in drawing an audience; but so would a kangaroo, a gorilla, or a hippopotamus.

I'm interested in characters that have just a touch of madness.

There are some loony people in this world!

Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with most people, is that you don’t have sufficient respect for the senseless. The senseless is the major factor in our lives. You have no chance if it is your enemy.

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

In times of crisis human beings don't have it in them to be rational.

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.

...following Mrs. Roosevelt in search of irrationality was like following a burning fuse in search of an explosive.

Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.

There is apt to be a lunatic fringe among the votaries of any forward movement.

If you scare somebody enough, they stop being rational.

you can’t use logic on human behavior.

An impractical man--which he not only seems to be, but really is--will always be unreliable and unpredictable in his dealings with others. He will engage in actions that mean something else to him than to others, but he is at peace with himself about everything as long as he can make it all come together in a fine idea.

Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world--to an individual or to a nation.