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View Quote You are right, Mr. Bond.That is just what I am, a maniac.All the greatest men are maniacs.They are possessed by a mania that drives them towards their goal. The great scientists, the philosophers, the religious leaders — all maniacs.

View Quote Ian Fleming, through "author surrogate" Dr. Julius No in Dr. No (1958).

View Quote The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue, posits the separation as already effected, and thrusts into oblivion all those stammered, imperfect words without fixed syntax in which the exchange between madness and reason was made. The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue of reason about madness, has been established only on the basis of such a silence.

View Quote Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization, preface to the 1961 edition

View Quote Many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem of mental health in a society is only that of the number of ‘unadjusted’ individuals, and not of a possible unadjustment of the culture itself.

View Quote Erich Fromm, The Sane Society