Zitat des Tages über Lunatics:
'The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum.
My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
Fame attracts lunatics.
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside.
It's been interesting seeing how vulnerable Obama is: not the secure president I thought he was or the strong leader that many people hoped he would be. He's a conciliator. But I've been listening to the Republican primary debates, and they're a bunch of lunatics. Just crazy.
Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.
