A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
John Updike

A lot of people thought this dream must be madness, but we are not crazy.
Gloria Trevi

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
Nikos Kazantzakis

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

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
Manolo Blahnik

Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.
Tom Baker

Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.
Sextus Propertius

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
Christopher Morley

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.
John Le Carre

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
G. M. Trevelyan

Anger is a short madness.
Horace

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
Petrarch

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.
Marston Morse

But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.
Georg Brandes

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Edmund Burke

Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
Basil Bunting

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
Seneca

Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of America. It is madness.
Nita Lowey

Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.
David Cronenberg