“Madness also makes folks uneasy; they fear contagion.”

“Marxist socialism also had dark nooks and crannies where Jews were regarded as money-mad capitalists or as an ‘obsolete’ people who refused to join the onward march of secular progress towards a moneyless society. Anarchists also suffered from this contagion,…”

Michael Burleigh (1955) American historian and writer

“Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.”

Dan Brown book Inferno

“What is it about silence that makes people uneasy?”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

“If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.”

Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)

“My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like.”

Edward Gorey (1925–2000) American writer, artist, and illustrator

“If you care about something enough, it’s going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad. Arnold, get mad.”

Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion, when the intuition of disaster is so painful that it almost provokes a greater madness […] One would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“The deadliest contagion is majority opinion.”

Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)