The Mad Hour!

You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope and be free.
Nikos Kazantzakis (1883 - 1957)

Madness is rare in individuals--but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe."
Johann von Goethe

"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"
Ursula K. LeGuin (b. 1929), US author, "The Princess"

"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, Interview BBC-TV (June 22, 1968)

"I must have ended up on the wrong planet. Everything here is so strange."
Sigbjørn Obstfelder, Norwegian poet

"Stop the world. I want to get off."
Anthony Newly

"When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish-born British playwright

"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
Lily Tomlin (1939 - ), Actress

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