
“It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.”
As quoted in Indefensible Weapons : The Political and Psychological Case Against Nuclearism (1992) by Robert Jay Lifton and Richard A. Falk, p. 224
“It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.”
As quoted in Indefensible Weapons : The Political and Psychological Case Against Nuclearism (1992) by Robert Jay Lifton and Richard A. Falk, p. 224
Review http://www.reelviews.net/php_review_template.php?identifier=1235 of The Dark Knight (2008).
Four star reviews
1990s, I Am a Man, a Black Man, an American (1998)
La verticale est dans mon esprit. Elle m'aide à préciser la direction des lignes, et dans mes dessins rapides je n'indique pas une courbe, par exemple, celle d'une branche dans un paysage, sans avoir conscience de son rapport avec la verticale.
Mes courbes ne sont pas folles.
1940s, Jazz (1947)
What the Butler Saw (1969), Act I
“Mel [Gibson] will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a number.”
Of his role in The Prisoner
Daily Mail, 15th January 2009 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1116243/How-star-stage-Patrick-McGoohan-Prisoner-success-switching-screen.html
Liam, Cathal (2006). Blood on the Shamrock: A Novel of Ireland's Continued Struggle for Freedom 1921-1924. St. Padraic Press, p. 194.
"Pay Attention" in Handbook for the Soul (1995) edited by Benjamin Shield
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
The New Science 241 (1744)
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 125
"'O My Love the Pretty Towns'"
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 16
I know, I know
I am not mad, but soon shall be.
"The Captive"; cited from The Life and Correspondence of M. G. Lewis (London: Henry Colburn, 1839) vol. 1, pp. 239-40.
“He is not mad. He is only more clever than you. It is not the same.”
Volume 4, Ch. 10
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)
On his temper flaring on May 25, 1922, when he threw dirt at an umpire and chased after a heckler in the stands, as quoted in "Ruth in Row With Umpire and Fan at Polo Grounds" in The New York Times (May 26, 1922), reprinted in Sultans of Swat: The Four Great Sluggers of the New York Yankees (2006) by The New York Times, p. 35 https://books.google.com/books?id=rvsETfrxDacC&pg=PA35
Ball's diary entry, 24 May 1916; as quoted in Looking at Dada, eds. Sarah Ganz Blythe & Edward D. Powers - The Museum of Modern Art New York, ISBN: 087070-705-1; p. 4
1916
Letter to Edward Blount (27 August 1714); a similar expression in "Thoughts on Various Subjects" in Swift's Miscellanies (1727): Party is the madness of many, for the gain of a few.
Lamb in September 27, 1796. In his letter to Coleridge; after the family tragedy. As quoted in Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (1905).
Ch 6
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), Fiat Homo
On Migingo Island's ownership, as quoted in "Kenyan MPs' fury over island row" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8048771.stm (13 May 2009), BBC News, United Kingdom: British Broadcasting Corporation
2000s
On why he tends to look to the past
Perry, Andrew (2004). "The White Stripes uncut" http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,13887,1349947,00.html Observer Music Monthly (accessed June 19, 2007).
2010
Blank Space, written by Taylor Swift, Max Martin, and Shellback
Song lyrics, 1989 (2014)
On the proposition that the volume generated by revolving the region under 1/x from 1 to infinity has finite volume. Quoted in Mathematical Maxims and Minims by N. Rose (1988)
Source: Laughter at the Foot of the Cross (1998), p. 73
“In Robert's experience there were two kinds of classicists, the mad and the disconcertingly sane.”
Page 48.
The Noonday Devil (1987)
Christian Non-Resistance: In All its Important Bearings, Illustrated and Defended (1846).
“He who loves the law dies either mad or poor.”
The Phœnix (1603-4)
“Grief and mad wrath devoured his soul, and hope, heaviest of mortal cares when long deferred.”
Exedere animum dolor iraque demens
et, qua non gravior mortalibus addita curis,
spes, ubi longa venit.
Source: Thebaid, Book II, Line 319
Latter Day Pamphlet, No. 8. (1850).
1820s, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)
“His hips felt as if an army of mad acupuncturists had been driving hot needles into them.”
Acts of God (1989)
“The Angry Young Man”, p. 111.
The Teachings of Don. B: Satires, Parodies, Fables, Illustrated Stories, and Plays of Donald Barthelme (1992)
“They are the only honest hypocrites. Their life is a voluntary dream; a studied madness.”
" On Actors and Acting" http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/RoundTable/ActorsActing.htm (The Examiner, 5 January 1817)
The Round Table (1815-1817)
" Last Chance to Think http://www.csicop.org/si/show/stephen_fry--last_chance_to_think/" Interview (2010) by Kylie Sturgess in Skeptical Inquirer. Vol 34 (1)
2000s
Call me Irresponsible (1963)
Song lyrics
"Science and Scientism", p. 115.
The Second Sin (1973)
“I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?”
"Baiting the Hook", p. 42
Memory and Dream (1994)
The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press, 1993, ISBN 0231071949, 9780231071949. A similar quotation is almost invariably attributed to Gandhi, but more likely derives from a 1914 US trade union address:
"And, my friends, in this story you have a history of this entire movement. First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you. And that, is what is going to happen to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America." General Executive Board Report and Proceedings [of The] Biennial Convention, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, 1914. Google Books http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=I-0UAAAAIAAJ&q=%22first+they+ignore+you%22+%22build+monuments%22&dq=%22first+they+ignore+you%22+%22build+monuments%22&lr=&as_brr=0&pgis=1
2000s
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1898/feb/08/the-queens-speech-reported-by-the-lord in the House of Lords (8 February 1898)
1890s
Jones, Howard (2003). Death of a Generation: How the Assassinations of Diem and JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War. pp.292-293
"Letters to the Times: Mrs. Nhu Defends Stand", The New York Times, 14 August 1963. Referring to the self-immolation of Buddhist monks protesting government actions.
Part 2, 00:30:25
Part 2: "The Virus Of Faith", quoted at ibid.
The Root of All Evil? (January 2006)
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 193.
“We call reality
to madness that remains
and madness to reality that vanishes”
La ciudad de la Luna (2009)
"Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper" in The Forerunner (October 1913) http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/whyyw.html
"The Paris Taxi-Driver Considered as an Artist," in Enchanted Aisles (1924).
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
“Poetry, Unlimited”, p. 159
Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
“I am individual, stylish, mad and a lot of fun to be with.”
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2257395/Interview-with-Deepak-Perwani
Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2014
“In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses.”
"Why I became a conservative," http://newcriterion.com:81/archive/21/feb03/burke.htm The New Criterion (February 2003).
At the Academy Awards as host
Miscellaneous
Source: Angels, Demons, & Gods of the New Millennium (1997), Chapter 5
Source: Tower of Dreams (1999), Chapter 9 (p. 123)
“In the country of the mad, the sane man is crazy.”
The Overman Culture (1971)
The Collector (1963)
Letters and Papers from Prison (1967; 1997), The Friend
regarding the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
2012-12-17
Dr. James Dobson's Family Talk
Radio
http://www.drjamesdobson.org/Broadcasts/Broadcast?i=32d0ea7c-eeb2-41fb-9c05-f6e0c733d58a, quoted in * 2012-12-17
Dobson: Connecticut Shooting was God Allowing 'Judgment to Fall Upon Us' for Turning Our Back on Him
Kyle Mantyla
Right Wing Watch
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/dobson-connecticut-shooting-was-god-allowing-judgment-fall-upon-us-turning-our-back-him
2012
Source: Self-Consciousness : Memoirs (1989), Ch. 4
https://owlquote.com/quotes/happiness-is-the-only-2jy3r26
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense
CNN interview, October 16, 2009. http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/16/beck.dunn/index.html
12
Essays, Can Poetry Matter? (1991), Poetry as Enchantment (2015)
As quoted in ".280 Not Good Enough: Clemente's Bat Answers Boos" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TpcuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=kKEFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2309%2C1919830 by Ian McDonald, in The Montreal Gazette (Friday, May 21, 1971), p. 17
Baseball-related, <big><big>1970s</big></big>, <big>1971</big>
(27th July 1822) Sketches from Drawings by Mr. Dagley. Sketch the First. Time arresting the Career of Pleasure.
The London Literary Gazette, 1821-1822
“At least you got him to pipe down,' she said. 'Are you okay? Mad animal.”
Source: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 1, p. 12
"Letter to P.B." in Lyrical and Critical Essays (1970)
“What a silly god, he makes everybody born bad to go to burning hell. Why so mad? All his fault!”
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 4.
"Realism and Idealism in English Literature (Daniel Defoe - William Blake)," lecture, Università Popolare, Trieste (February 27-28, 1912), printed in James Joyce: Occasional, Critical and Political Writing (2002) edited by Kevin Barry [Oxford University Press, <small> ISBN 0-192-83353-7</small>], p. 179
Oct. 27, 1933 (writing about her diary)
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
Source: Voices offstage: a book of memoirs, (1968), p. 237; Cited in: Michael A. Morrison (1999) John Barrymore, Shakespearean Actor. p. 345
Lyrics, Misc.
The Philosophical Emperor, a Political Experiment, or, The Progress of a False Position: (1841)
Context: To jump occasionally into the pit is common to all who visit the mountain, and to some who keep on the plain; but the madness to which I have alluded consists in rapid alternations from the mountain to the pit, annoying all persons who are forced, by friendship or consanguinity, to consort with the unfortunate maniacs. To remain permanently either on the pinnacle or in the abyss is deemed a species of the same disorder, though not so common.