Power Born of Madness/Quotes

Beckett: You're mad!
Jack: Well, that's a relief, because if I wasn't this would probably never work.

—Pirates of the Caribbean

"I'm so crazy, I don't know this is impossible!"

—Daffy Duck, riding an invisible bicycle in an early Looney Tunes short

"In an hour of Darkness a blind man is the best guide. In an age of Insanity look to the madman to lead the way."

—Imperial Maxim, Warhammer 40,000

"Only the insane have strength enough to prosper; only those that prosper may judge what is truly sane."

—Imperial Maxim, Warhammer 40,000

"Sanity is for the Weak!"

—Warhammer 40,000

"The mad can survive what sanity says is suicide."

—The Sundering

The moment their arms spun freely in our air, they were doomed--for Man has earned his right to hold this planet against all comers, by virtue of occasionally producing someone totally batshit insane.

—xkcd #556: Alternative Energy Revolution (alt text)

Nothing turned, say, a slightly talented musician into a towering genius faster than the problem of encroaching deafness, and nothing turned a perfectly normal, healthy individual into a great military or political leader better than irreversible brain damage.

—The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

For the first time she saw its eyes. They were red, and mad as hell. Anything with eyes like that could kill anything it wanted, because madness, true madness, can drive a fist through a plank.

—Discworld: Men at Arms

Sanity is overrated.

—Unattributed

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