• 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.

  

  John Lennon

  MusicianBritish1940 · 20th century

  3.6 · 15 votes · 200 reads

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• The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground.

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  Herman Melville

  WriterAmerican1819 · 19th century

  3.0 · 7 votes · 180 reads

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• The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad.

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  Salman Rushdie

  NovelistIndian1947 · 20th century

  4.3 · 9 votes · 91 reads

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• We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.2 · 45 votes · 56 reads

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• What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

  

  George Orwell

  NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

  3.2 · 55 votes · 53 reads

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• You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  4.1 · 15 votes · 116 reads

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