Irrational Action Quotes

Political activities are still suspended …. The population has always acted according to its feelings instead of its mind.

Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams.

He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

Mobs have passions, not brains.

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.

Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.

Don't even ask me why. I do not know, I have no answer to this insane behaviour.

What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!

There is nothing in the world I hold in greater horror than to see a body moving against its head: and I shall be very careful notto ally myself with such a monster.

Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.

Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never be.

An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.