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Lunatics Quotes

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Ambrose Bierce
“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.”
Ambrose Bierce, The Collected Writings Of Ambrose Bierce

Derek Landy
“Embrace your inner lunatic. Fun times guaranteed.”
Derek Landy, Death Bringer

Carlos Ruiz Zafón
“Who are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for peace at any price? Or the ones who pretend they don't see what's going on around them? The world belongs either to lunatics or hypocrites. There are no other races on this earth. You must choose which one to belong to.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Midnight Palace

Robert McKee
“We realize we can't go around saying and doing what we're actually thinking and feeling. If we all did that, life would be a lunatic asylum. Indeed, that's how you know you're talking to a lunatic. Lunatics are those poor souls who have lost their inner communication and so they allow themselves to say and do exactly what they are thinking and feeling and that's why they're mad.”
Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

George Orwell
“In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, because a bookshop is one of the few places where you can hang about for a long time without spending any money.”
George Orwell

“Man's inhumanity to man will continue as long as man loves God more than he loves his fellow man. The love of God means wasted love. 'For God and Country' means a divided allegiance—a 50 per cent patriot.

The most abused word in the language of man is the word 'God.' The reason for this is that it is subject to so much abuse. There is no other word in the human language that is as meaningless and incapable of explanation as is the word 'God.' It is the beginning and end of nothing. It is the Alpha and Omega of Ignorance.

It has as many meanings as there are minds. And as each person has an opinion of what the word God ought to mean, it is a word without premise, without foundation, and without substance. It is without validity. It is all things to all people, and is as meaningless as it is indefinable. It is the most dangerous in the hands of the unscrupulous, and is the joker that trumps the ace. It is the poisoned word that has paralyzed the brain of man.

'The fear of the Lord' is not the beginning of wisdom; on the contrary, it has made man a groveling slave; it has made raving lunatics of those who have attempted to interpret what God 'is' and what is supposed to be our 'duty' to God. It has made man prostitute the most precious things of life—it has made him sacrifice wife, and child, and home.

'In the name of God' means in the name of nothing—it has caused man to be a wastrel with the precious elixir of life, because there is no God.”
Joseph Lewis, An Atheist Manifesto

“When Dr. James Young Simpson sought to apply anesthesia to a woman in childbirth, the clergymen of his day foamed at the mouth and spat upon him with vituperation and abuse, for attempting to violate God's direct command that 'in pain thou shalt bring forth children,' as based upon the idiotic text of the Bible. But Dr. Simpson persisted despite the ravings of the religious lunatics of his day.

The importance of Dr. Simpson's application of anesthesia to the relief of pain in childbirth, and his open defiance of the religionists, are beyond the measure of words to evaluate.”
Joseph Lewis, An Atheist Manifesto

Raheel Farooq
“Lunatics are not the only ones to be called lunatics.”
Raheel Farooq

Ken Kesey
“We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind.”
Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Peter Ackroyd
“This mundus tenebrosus, this shaddowy world of Mankind, is sunk into Night; there is not a Field without its Spirits, nor a City without its Daemons, and the Lunaticks speak Prophesies while the Wise men fall into the Pitte.”
Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor

Bertrand Russell
“All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave. Many people desire those things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can be refuted by science: mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.”
Bertrand Russell

Karl Wiggins
“Being a lunatic isn’t so bad, but to be a lunatic AND be wrong would be bleak, man!”
Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

Honoré Gabriel Riqueti de Mirabeau
“The little wisdom that the world possesses, was introduced by lunatics.”
Mirabeau

James   McBride
“I didn't make head nor tails of what he was saying, for I was to learn that Old John Brown could work the Lord into just about any aspect of his comings and goings in life, including using the privy. That's one reason I weren't a believer, having been raised by my Pa, who was a believer and a lunatic, and them things seemed to run together.”
James McBride, The Good Lord Bird

Natsume Sōseki
“Al final puede que la sociedad entera no sea más que una especie de congregación de lunáticos, formado por miles de chalados cada uno”
Natsume Sōseki, I Am a Cat

Eoin Colfer
“Naturally, we lunatics are the kindest of the bunch.”
Eoin Colfer, Airman

George Galloway
“Sir Richard Branson who owns an island, lives on the island for the purposes of avoiding British taxes in the British Virgin islands, he's got his bowl out, demanding a 7.4 billion pound bailout for Virgin Airlines.”
George Galloway

Pagan Kennedy
“Sean had shaken his head when he heard. 'That girl's a lunatic,' he's said. 'Man, you got to cut her loose. Her mood ring's gone permanently black, you know what I mean?”
Pagan Kennedy, The Exes

Dmitry Dyatlov
“Why would anyone blame any election results on “Russia� my first thought was, hey, did they rig the voting machines somehow? No�. Are you having problems with Basic Maths? Apparently what ACTUALLY happened was they ran some ads on FB or something, and THAT swayed the vote. Oh, wow. So, what you’re ACTUALLY saying is you do not trust your eligible voters to draw conclusions from an abundance of information available in a free society. Is that it? Well you’re fucking stupid. Stop bitching, bitch.”
Dmitry Dyatlov

“When you find yourself caught in a crazy system dreamed up by dangerous lunatics, you just do what you're told.”
Masaji Ishikawa, A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea

T. Kingfisher
“Did an echo just tell us to run?' asked Agnes, adjusting Finder, and looking rather calmer than Marra felt.

'Do ghostly echoes have our best interest at heart?' asked Fenris, also remarkably calm.

'Rarely,' said the dust-wife.

Marra thought, I'm surrounded by lunatics, but and I love them all, but maybe we should be running, anyway.”
T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

Steven Magee
“The research that states humans that sleep in moonlight will turn into lunatics appears to be flawed.”
Steven Magee

Steven Magee
“History says that humans sleeping in moonlight turn into lunatics. Today that does not happen and one has to query why?”
Steven Magee

Steven Magee
“Having experienced light sensitivity during radiation detoxification, I can understand how people with light sensitivity would turn into lunatics when sleeping in moonlight.”
Steven Magee