Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anton LaVey

To be loved, feelings must be rationed. To love, the doors of hysteria, fantasy, and madness may be flung open.

Richard Dawkins

Cloning may be good and it may be bad. Probably it's a bit of both. The question must not be greeted with reflex hysteria but decided quietly, soberly and on its own merits. We need less emotion and more thought.

Richard Dawkins

The mob hysteria over pedophiles has reached epidemic proportions and driven parents to panic. Today's Just Williams, today's Huck Finns, today's Swallows and Amazons are deprived of the freedom to roam that was one of the delights of childhood in earlier times (when the actual, as opposed to the perceived, risk of molestation was probably no less).

Jim Rogers

The last leg of a bull market always ends in hysteria; the last leg of a bear market always ends in panic.

Eric Alterman

Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. Meanwhile, the corporate lobbies stay right where they are, outlasting all the populist hysteria.

John Ashcroft

The charges of the hysterics are revealed for what they are: castles in the air built on misrepresentation, supported by unfounded fear, held aloft by hysteria.

Marek Belka

With the sugar market hysteria, the people are obviously worried and expect higher inflation. When this hysteria subsides, which we're probably observing, then I hope that people will also get less worried about the future of inflation.

Elia Kazan

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

Terence McKenna

Standing outside the cultural hysteria the trend is fairly clear. It is a trend toward temporal compression and the emergence of ambiguity.

John Glover

I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out.

Charlize Theron

I was a little mad at myself because I feel very fortunate,

Deshea Townsend

He is a mad man on the field.

Audrey Moore

He got a little mad at me and didn't speak to me for a while.

Richard Dawkins

Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.

Woody Allen

I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion with you.

William Saroyan

The mad also laugh, or is that what Freud and the others discovered perhaps, that only the mad laugh?

Will Champion

At the end of the day, we're just trying to prevent each other from going mad.

Sarah Caldwell

Raving mad is quite easy. You just chew up the scenery or something. It's quiet mad that's hard.

Robert Sullivan

Here's the data. This is not a political position, it's just scientific data.

Javier Solana

I want to underline that the political process is back on track ... the cease-fire is back on track.

William Wilberforce

If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.

Michael Harrison

He isn't just a political talk show host, he's a showman,

Russell Brand

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

Rose Macaulay

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

Willie Brown

You're going to be accused of every high crime and low misdemeanor there is.

Willie Brown

Dressing is a matter of taste, and I've met very few Republicans with good taste.

William S. Burroughs

Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.