“In a mad world, only the mad are sane!”
Akira Kurosawa (1910–1998) Japanese film maker
Ran (1985)
Variant: In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
“In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom.”
— J. G. Ballard, book Running Wild
Running Wild (1988)
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