“Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.”
William Ralph Inge (1860–1954) Dean of St Pauls
"Our Present Discontents" (August 1919) in Outspoken Essays (1919), p. 2
“Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.”
William Ralph Inge (1860–1954) Dean of St Pauls
"Our Present Discontents" (August 1919) in Outspoken Essays (1919), p. 2
“Fantasy. Lunacy. All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities.”
David Mitchell book Cloud Atlas
"An Orison of Sonmi~451", p. 326
Cloud Atlas (2004), An Orison of Sonmi~451 (Part 2)
John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces
Source: A Confederacy of Dunces (1980, posthumous), Ch. 2, opening line
John Byrne (1950) American author and artist of comic books
On the death of Steve Irwin, "The Crocodile Hunter"
Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in America
and I've found, during my admittedly limited experience in political reporting, that power & honesty very rarely coincide.
Comments on Pat Buchanan in a letter to Garry Wills (17 October 1973); published in Fear and Loathing in America (2000) ISBN 0747549648
1970s
Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer
"We're Extremely Fortunate"
Poems New and Collected (1998), The End and the Beginning (1993)
Alan Moore book Batman: The Killing Joke
Batman : The Killing Joke (1988)
Source: Batman: The Killing Joke
Context: I've demonstrated there's no difference between me and everyone else! All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.