O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
William ShakespeareFor other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
Henry KissingerAny fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Henry David ThoreauWe are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.
Winston ChurchillThere are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.
Elon MuskMost poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I’ll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master… it’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.
Charles BukowskiThe fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.
Narendra ModiImperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Marilyn MonroeNational character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
Arthur SchopenhauerThere is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
Edmund BurkeSilence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.
Thomas CarlyleMost nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.
Jean-Jacques RousseauMost men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.
DiogenesRisk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.
Warren BuffettIn great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
Abraham LincolnA peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
William ShakespeareSometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.
Marilyn MonroeThere is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
Salvador DaliMen are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
Blaise PascalVirtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
PlatoWhen we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark TwainWe cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. KennedyThings must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
Benjamin DisraeliTo rule is easy, to govern difficult.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheGod grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘
Benjamin FranklinParty-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Alexander PopeThe more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
Will RogersFor years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
Erma BombeckBoth free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.
Thomas SowellThe god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
William JamesNo excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
AristotleOptimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
VoltaireThe credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI’m interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.
Jordan PetersonThere is no great genius without some touch of madness.
AristotleMankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude – all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinWith the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
Bertrand RussellI can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
Isaac NewtonJust as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
Mahatma GandhiWhat can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
Friedrich NietzscheI make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping.
Mark TwainNo great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaLaws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.
George WashingtonEvery nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
Mark TwainThere will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
Albert CamusExcess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
PlatoIn Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan’s writers live in Tokyo. Naturally, they make a community. There are groups and customs, and so they are tied up in a way.
Haruki MurakamiHuman progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
Thomas JeffersonA dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.
C. S. LewisInsanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich NietzscheThe happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
George EliotAs individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.
Steve JobsI am fearful, or suspicious, of generalizations… They cannot guide me reliably in making decisions about particular individuals.
Ruth Bader GinsburgIn legal language, a covenant generally denotes an agreement between two or more parties. But in a religious context, a covenant is much more significant. It is a sacred promise with God. He fixes the terms.
Russell M. NelsonAs an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.
Mark TwainToday different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.
Dalai LamaIf they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Napoleon BonaparteThere is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche