Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-20] of 44 Sanity quotesSanity QuotesSanity Next 20 quotes Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.~ Aesop Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing.~ Harry J. Anslinger Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death.~ Harry J. Anslinger 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.~ Marcus Aurelius For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.~ Sir Francis Bacon We are all born mad. Some remain so.~ Samuel Beckett To be paranoid means to believe in delusions of danger and persecution. If the danger is real, and the evidence credible, then it cannot be delusional. To ignore the evidence, and hope that it CANNOT be true, is more an evidence of mental illness.~ William Blase A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.~ Leon Blum It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.~ David Brin Marihuana is a more dangerous drug than heroin or cocaine. I am surprised to learn that certain police officers have been inclined to minimize the effects of the use of marihuana. They would, I am sure, be convinced that the drug is adhering to its Old World traditions of murder, assault, rape, physical demoralization, and mental breakdown. A study of the effects of marihuana shows clearly that it is a dangerous drug, and Bureau records prove that its use is associated with insanity and crime.~ Bulletin of the FBI Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.~ Frank Gelett Burgess A fanatic is a person who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.~ Sir Winston Churchill The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.~ Friedrich Durrenmatt One Blue Dog Democratic House Member reminded me earlier this month of the saying that 'insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' He wondered if his fellow Members weren't more in need of advice from psychiatrists than from economists at this point.~ John Fund I am what I have always been: the last Renaissance man, if I may be allowed to say so.~ Hermann Goering Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time are either psychopaths or mountebanks.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.~ Friedrich August von Hayek Truth, in its struggles for recognition, passes through four distinct stages. First, we say it is damnable, dangerous, disorderly, and will surely disrupt society. Second, we declare it is heretical, infidelic and contrary to the Bible. Third, we say it is really a matter of no importance either one way or the other. Fourth, we aver that we have always upheld it and believed it.~ Elbert Hubbard If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous tyrant. I make my choice now. I despise that doctrine. It has covered the cheeks of this world with tears. It has polluted the hearts of children, and poisoned the imaginations of men. It has been a constant pain, a perpetual terror to every good man and woman and child. It has filled the good with horror and with fear; but it has had no effect upon the infamous and base. It has wrung the hearts of the tender, it has furrowed the cheeks of the good. This doctrine never should be preached again. What right have you, sir, Mr. clergyman, you, minister of the gospel to stand at the portals of the tomb, at the vestibule of eternity, and fill the future with horror and with fear? I do not believe this doctrine, neither do you. If you did, you could not sleep one moment. Any man who believes it, and has within his breast a decent, throbbing heart, will go insane. A man who believes that doctrine and does not go insane has the heart of a snake and the conscience of a hyena.~ Robert G. Ingersoll Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print