Famous quotes containing the words insanity, defense and/or reform:
“During these fits of absolute unconsciousness I drank, God only knows how often or how much. As a matter of course, my enemies referred the insanity to the drink rather than the drink to the insanity. I had indeed, nearly abandoned all hope of a permanent cure when I found one in the death of my wife.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091849)
“The cliché organizes life; it expropriates peoples identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)
“... most reform movements in our country have been cursed by a lunatic fringe and have mingled sound ideas for social progress with utopian nonsense.”
—Agnes E. Meyer (18871970)
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