“Ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.”
Akira Kurosawa 'Something Like an Autobiography (1981)
Something Like an Autobiography (1981)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Akira Kurosawa 16
Japanese film maker 1910–1998Related quotes
"What Can I Tell You about Myself which You Have Not Already Found Out from Those Who Do Not Lie?" in The Beatles Anthology (2000)
“Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.”
“People are demonstrably insane when it comes to assessing human sentience.”
"One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)
“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.”
"What Can I Tell You about Myself which You Have Not Already Found Out from Those Who Do Not Lie?" in The Beatles Anthology (2000)
Context: Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. … I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
Time to 'get angry', teen climate activist says in Davos https://news.yahoo.com/time-angry-teen-climate-activist-says-davos-015904861.html, World Economic Forum, Davos (January 2019)...
2019, World Economic Forum (January 2019)
Nora Ephron, Heartburn (1983), as reported in What a piece of work is man!: Camp's unfamiliar quotations from 2000 B.C. to the present (1989), p. 320.
Pt. III, ch. 2, pg 216
The Quiet American (1955)
