Insanity quotes

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.

What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

The things I talk about and explain couldn’t happen – yet, they don’t seem impossible – you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane – and it’s trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn’t a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.