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View Quote Open your eyes and see the fear, the despair, the greed, and the violence that are all-pervasive. See the heinous cruelty and suffering on an unimaginable scale that humans have inflicted and continue to inflict on each other as well as on other life forms on the planet. You don't need to condemn. Just observe. That is sin. That is insanity.

View Quote Oscar Levant, as quoted in Celebrity Register : An Irreverent Compendium of American Quotable Notables (1959) by Cleveland Amory ; also paraphrased as "There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line".

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View Quote Plautus, Menæchmi, V, 2, 90.

View Quote R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience.

View Quote Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, Conduct of Life. Of Behaviour.

View Quote Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Friendship,” Essays: First Series, Complete Works (1883), vol. 2, pp. 194-195

View Quote Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (1953).

View Quote Ray Bradbury, The Meadow (1947), originally a radio play for the World Security Workshop; later revised into a short-story for the anthology The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953).

View Quote Recently, the press has been filled with reports of sightings of flying saucers. While we need not give credence to these stories, they allow our imagination to speculate on how visitors from outer space would judge us. I am afraid they would be stupefied at our conduct. They would observe that for death planning we spend billions to create engines and strategies for war. They would also observe that we spend millions to prevent death by disease and other causes. Finally they would observe that we spend paltry sums for population planning, even though its spontaneous growth is an urgent threat to life on our planet. Our visitors from outer space could be forgiven if they reported home that our planet is inhabited by a race of insane men whose future is bleak and uncertain.

View Quote Redemption

View Quote Regarding his 1989 statement "It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that)."

View Quote Richard Dawkins "Ignorance Is No Crime", Free Inquiry 21 (3), Summer 2001, ISSN 0272-0701

View Quote Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part III (1678), Canto II, line 565.

View Quote Sanity