“Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.”
“They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.”
Remark after being incarcerated in Bedlam for five years, as quoted in the Introduction of A Social History of Madness : The World Through the Eyes of the Insane (1987) by Roy Porter; also in "The Madness of King Jesus : Why was Jesus Put to Death, but his Followers were not?" by Justin J. Meggitt in Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Vol. 29, No. 4 (June 2007) http://jnt.sagepub.com/content/29/4/379.abstract.
“When it comes to men, deal with them as they are, not how you’d like them to be.”
Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
“Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.”
Les hommes seront toujours fous; et ceux qui croient les guérir sont les plus fous de la bande.
Letter to Louise Dorothea of Meiningen, duchess of Saxe-Gotha Madame (30 January 1762)
Citas
Source: Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling, New Society Publishers (2013) p. xxii
