#lunatic

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them. ↗

— John McCain

#collective consciousness #consciousness #core #dare #deeply

FËDOR Mikhailovich Dostoevski, the Russian novelist, said one time that, "One sacred memory from childhood is perhaps the best education." I can think of another quickie education for a child, which, in its way, is almost as salutary: Meeting a human being who is tremendously respected by the adult world, and realizing that that person is actually a malicious lunatic. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#childhood-memory #childhood-trauma #lunatic #education

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#anything #asylum #casual #does #lunatic

My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic. ↗

— Spike Milligan

#father #had #influence #lunatic #me

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. ↗

— Rebecca West

#difference #idiots #lunatics #main #men

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. ↗

— Kirk Hammett

#being #changed #fans #first #going

If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#base #civil #civil society #enormous #harm

Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming. ↗

— Lord Mountbatten

#aunt #charming #crazy #empress #even

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#accustomed #am #awake #i #i am

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. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#charming #differs #fact #feared #great