#madness

It would be well to realize that the talk of ‘humane methods of warfare’, of the ‘rules of civilized warfare’, and all such homage to the finer sentiments of the race are hypocritical and unreal, and only intended for the consumption of stay-at-homes. There are no humane methods of warfare, there is no such thing as civilized warfare; all warfare is inhuman, all warfare is barbaric; the first blast of the bugles of war ever sounds for the time being the funeral knell of human progress… What lover of humanity can view with anything but horror the prospect of this ruthless destruction of human life. Yet this is war: war for which all the jingoes are howling, war to which all the hopes of the world are being sacrificed, war to which a mad ruling class would plunge a mad world. ↗

— James Connolly

#civilized #death #destruction #elite #humanity

Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really. ↗

— Tom Baker

#anything #fantastic #into #kind #madness

Emancipation resulting in madness. Unlimited freedom to choose and play a tremendous variety of roles with a lot of coarse energy. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#madness #unlimited-freedom #freedom

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. ↗

— Apple Inc.

#apple #change #commercial #computers #different

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#destroyed #generation #hysterical #i #madness

I’m just saying it doesn’t always have to be spirits and magic. Sometimes hauntings are in your mind. It doesn’t make them less real. ↗

— Kendare Blake

#life-lessons #madness #experience

It's amusing to me that we refer to people who live in their heads as detached, disturbed, or mad, when reality for anyone is actually a matter of the individual's state of mind. The mad truth--all people live in their heads. Whatever you think life is, it is. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#detached #disturbed #madness #outlook #outlook-in-life

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#calculate #heavenly #heavenly bodies #i #i can

It was strange what Chris was feeling within, but he didn’t mind for he was loving her. ↗

— Moffat Machingura

#love #love-at-first-sight #love-is #love-is-beautiful #love-is-blind

Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because they take no heed of our angers and disputes, we can never enough decry the disorderly sallies of our minds. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#human-nature #madness #mind #passion #soul