John Updike Quotes About Madness
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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
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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.
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To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.
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So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.
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