Sane Society Quotes

#1. I had better come clean now and say that I do not believe that art (all art) and beauty are ever separate, nor do I believe that either art or beauty are optional in a sane society.

Jeanette Winterson

#2. In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom.

J.G. Ballard

#3. In any sane society, a farmer is a billion times more important than an economist.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#4. The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.

Emma Goldman

#5. No sane society chooses to commit national suicide.

John F. Kennedy

#6. In a sane society no woman would be left to struggle on her own with the huge transformation that is motherhood, when a single individual finds herself joined by an invisible umbilical cord to another person from whom she will never be separated, even by death.

Germaine Greer

#7. We are the ones who are alive. Here. With everything to lose

Ally Condie

#8. It's not a question of what you want. No sane person ever WANTS a war. But if you see outsiders as a threat and believe that an armed defense is the only way you're going to be safe from them, then you're going to find yourselves in the middle of a war whether you want one or not.

Chris Lester

#9. The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?

Joseph Heller

#10. That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

Erich Fromm

#11. With the possible exception of having more pleasing lines to the eye while in flight, the monoplane possesses no material advantage over the biplane.

Glenn Curtiss

#12. I've got a winner mentality, the mentality of a champion.

Lamar Odom

#13. Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts - and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?

Joseph Heller

#14. I'm a white male, age 18 to 49. Everyone listens to me, no matter how dumb my suggestions are.

Homer

#15. In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

Andrew Young

#16. She's right, of course. My mother usually is. She's a librarian.

Heather Vogel Frederick

#17. I don't know any other way. Anastasia. This is who I am.

E.L. James

#18. I want to be taken to a madhouse," said Turnbull distinctly, giving the direction with a sort of precision. "I want to go back to exactly the same lunatic asylum from which I came." "Why?" asked the unknown. "Because I want a little sane and wholesome society," answered Turnbull.

G.K. Chesterton

#19. Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.

Thomas Szasz

#20. When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.

Terry Goodkind

#21. The wicked will gnaw their tongues for anguish and pain; they will curse God and look upwards. There the dogs of hell, pride, malice, revenge, rage, horror, despair, continually devout them.

John Wesley

#22. I'm a productive citizen. Well, not productive, I mean if you add up what I bring to society and what I take out, society probably breaks even. And I'm not crazy. I mean, I know anybody can say that. But a crazy person can't fake sane, right?

David Wong

#23. The warmth of our bodies began to melt my frozen heart bit by bit.

Kirito

#24. To fight oppression, and to work as best we can for a sane organization of society, we do not have to abandon the state of mind offreedom. If we do that we are letting the same thuggery in by the back door that we are fighting off in front of the house.

John Dos Passos

#25. One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and living experience. But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals.

Edward Abbey

#26. A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.

Kurt Vonnegut

#27. The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.

Jean Cocteau

#28. Sane is the insanity most people call normality, put forth by society.

Erik Till

#29. It must be taken as given that a man who happens to be the world's most powerful, most terrible, most deadly sorceror, must have a woman at his side. But it does not follow, my children, that a woman of similar proportions requires a man at hers.

Steven Erikson

#30. Spontaneous insanity is the real bliss! It's sad that we are honored for playing sane, serious, safe, miserable and controlling in this poor world.

Saurabh Sharma

#31. You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.

Cory Booker

#32. Society is what decides who's sane and who isn't, so you got to measure up.

Ken Kesey

#33. In our society, those who have the best knowledge of what is happening are also those who are furthest from seeing the world as it is. In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane

Anonymous

#34. It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future; and how we undermine it, today.

Viktor E. Frankl

#35. Society has definitely gotten to the point where everybody has to comment on anything, and if you want to stay sane as a performer, you're better off not reading that stuff.

Doug Benson

#36. We are poor indeed if we are only sane.

D.W. Winnicott