Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
Emile M. Cioran

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
Diogenes of Sinope

I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.
Anthony Hopkins

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
Georges Bataille

The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans.
Philip J. Davis

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
Aldous Huxley

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
Alexander Pope

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.
John Dryden

They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called "war" too. And there will still be no conventional war.
Bruce Sterling

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.
Thomas Traherne