#madness

Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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I don't necessarily find superheroes in general, for me, that appealing. I'd much prefer to play, if I was to be cast in a superhero film, I'd prefer to play the villain because there's a reason, there's a motive behind their madness. ↗

— Ryan Kwanten

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I'm not the kind of guy that inspires madness in people. ↗

— Ryan Kwanten

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With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. ↗

— Thomas Sankara

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Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. ↗

— Seneca

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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. ↗

— Seneca

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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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