> On 25 May, 20:45, "Mark K. Bilbo" wrote:
>

>> Tom wrote:

>

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>>>> It's not a conspiracy. They just don't like religion and they want to
>>>> convince the American public that religion s bad.

>

>>> It's not a conspiracy, it's just that they are all secretly plotting
>>> against us.

>

>> I'm not paranoid, they're just out to get me!

>
> Dogbert: "Reality is always controlled by the people who are most
> insane."
> Scott Adams, Dilbert
>
> Dilbert to Dogbert: "My invention will turn people into mindless
> sheep."
> Dogbert to Dilbert: "I'm curious how you'll know it works. I assume
> it's mostly a cosmetic change."
> Scott Adams, Dilbert, 2002
>
> "The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to
> escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
> Marcus Aurelius
>
> "We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the
> idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has
> bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but
> the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and
> the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal."
> Carl Bernstein, U.S. journalist. Guardian (London, June 3, 1992)
>
> "All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a
> philosopher."
> Ambrose Bierce
>
> "Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage."
> Ray Bradbury
>
> "The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is
> suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best
> friends. If they are okay, then it's you."
> Rita Mae Brown
>
> "If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane."
> Jimmy Buffett, entertainer, lyrics in "Changes In Latitudes, Changes
> In Attitudes"
>
> "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us
> as equals."
> Sir Winston Churchill
>
> " ... we're living in a Machiavellian world, whether we like it or we
> don't."
> Bob Dylan, songwriter, 'Rolling Stone' magazine, 22 Nov 2001, page 63,
> Dylan was not being cynical, he was praising Machiavelli
>
> "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
> Albert Einstein
>
> "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a
> different result."
> Albert Einstein
>
> "Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet."
> Ralph Waldo Emerson
>
> "We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our
> planet is the mental institution of the universe."
> Johann von Goethe
>
> "When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be
> sane."
> Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
>
> "What luck for rulers that men do not think."
> Adolf Hitler
>
> "Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."
> Aldous Huxley
>
> "Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."
> Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), founder of analytical psychology
>
> "A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope
> and be free."
> Nikos Kazantzakis
>
> "In a mad world, only the mad are sane."
> Akiro Kurosawa
>
> "Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world."
> R. D. Lang
>
> "What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"
> Ursula K. LeGuin (b. 1929), US author, "The Princess"
>
> "Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.... I think
> we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends ... and I think I’m
> liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s
> insane about it."
> John Lennon, Interview BBC-TV (June 22, 1968)
>
> "Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving
> birth to a child. She must be found and stopped."
> Sam Levenson
>
> "Years ago, it meant something to be crazy. Now everyone's crazy."
> Charles Manson
>
> "The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to
> think things out for himself without regard to the prevailing
> superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion
> that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and
> intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And
> even if he is not romantic personally he is apt to spread discontent
> among those who are."
> H.L. Mencken
>
> "Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the
> monkey cage."
> H.L. Mencken
>
> "In America, the criminally insane rule and the rest of us, or the
> vast majority of the rest of us, either do not care, do not know, or
> are distracted and properly brainwashed into acquiescence."
> Kurt Nimmo
>
> "Stop the world. I want to get off."
> Anthony Newly
>
> "In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and
> epochs, it is the rule."
> Friedrich Nietzsche
>
> "I must have ended up on the wrong planet. Everything here is so
> strange."
> Sigbjørn Obstfelder, Norwegian poet
>
> "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity!"
> Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49), American poet
>
> "America is an insane asylum run by the inmates."
> Lester Roloff (1914-1982)
>
> "When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since
> sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the
> whole world happens to agree."
> George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish-born British playwright
>
> "No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up."
> Lily Tomlin (1939 - ), Actress
>
> "The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a
> rat."
> Lily Tomlin (1939 - ), Actress
>
> "Beam me up Scotty."
> Star Trek
>
> "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to
> pause and reflect."
> Mark Twain
>
> "Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us
> to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and
> simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing
> difficulties and obscurities now."
> Mark Twain, What Is Man?, Ed. Paul Baender (1973). Christian Science,
> bk. 1, ch. 5 (1907)
>
> "Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their
> lunatics."
> Voltaire, in Memnon the Philosopher
>
> "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
> Voltaire
>
> "The world is tragic to those who feel and comic to those who think."
> Robert Walpole
>
> "Sometimes I think that the greatest sign that there is intelligent
> life somewhere in the universe is that it hasn't tried to contact us
> yet."
> Bill Watterson, "Calvin and Hobbes"
>
> "There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a
> longer shelf life."
> Frank Zappa