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— L. Ron Hubbard American science fiction author, philosopher, cult leader, and the founder of the Church of Scientology 1911 - 1986
Context: Man is sick and nations have gone mad.
You would not even tolerate for one moment the conduct in an individual that is commonplace in the acts of some nations. You would lock up such a person.
"Times Must Change" in Ability # 179 (20 March 1966).
— Alcuin English scholar and abbot 740 - 804
Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.
Variant translation: We should not listen to those who like to affirm that the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the tumult of the masses is truly close to madness.
Works, Epistle 127 (to Charlemagne, AD 800)
— Ludwig Wittgenstein Austrian-British philosopher 1889 - 1951
— Jennifer Aniston television and film actress from the United States 1969
Interview for Vogue magazine (December 2008)
— Peter Handke Austrian writer, playwright and film director 1942
Das Gewicht der Welt [The Weight of the World], p. 16
— Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994
— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994
— Heinrich Himmler Nazi officer, Commander of the SS 1900 - 1945
1920s, 14 May 1928
— Peter Handke Austrian writer, playwright and film director 1942
Das Gewicht der Welt [The Weight of the World], p. 16
— Aristotle Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy -384 - -322 BC
— Jack Kerouac, On the Road
On the Road (1957), Context: They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"
Part One, Ch. 1
— Brandon Boyd American rock singer, writer and visual artist 1976
Lyrics, S.C.I.E.N.C.E. (1997)
— Thomas Sankara President of Upper Volta 1949 - 1987
From 1985 interview with Swiss Journalist Jean-Philippe Rapp, translated from Sankara: Un nouveau pouvoir africain by Jean Ziegler. Lausanne, Switzerland: Editions Pierre-Marcel Favre, 1986. In Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-87. trans. Samantha Anderson. New York: Pathfinder, 1988. pp. 141-144.
— Ed Sheeran English singer-songwriter and producer 1991
Song lyrics, + (2011), The A Team.
— Bob Marley Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician 1945 - 1981
