“hysterical lunatic and loose tyrant.”
Fidel Castro
“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.”
Ambrose Bierce
“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact”
William Shakespeare
“All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things : That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave”
Bertrand Russell
“The lunatic fringe wags the underdog”
Henry Louis Mencken
“A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Had there been a lunatic asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on a pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could but have confirmed the diagnosis.”
Henry Ellis