“There's always people - it doesn't take many - who have a different psychological makeup than most of us who really get joy out of provoking. They don't always believe the things they say, they just like to watch people go crazy. You know, I knew people like that in elementary school - bullies of one kind or another.” PeopleKnowsBelieveKindDifferentSchoolJoyWatchesCrazyPsychologicalMakeupProvokingBullyAlways BelieveElementary School Author:Tim Wu
“Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are.” PeopleLooksSometimesMoralCrazyRevolutionRevolutionaryCrazy People Author:Dale Jamieson
“It's very rare that people let me hop off the crazy wagon.” PeopleCrazyLet MeHopsWagons Author:Jimmi Simpson
“We give people way too much credit. People just get crazy.” PeopleWayGivingToo MuchCrazyCredit Author:Vince Staples
“I think it's crazy for us to think that people don't understand what's being foregrounded in their lives at a given point in time.” PeopleThinkingGivenCrazy Author:Bell Hooks
“Liberals in blue states just think that when they look in the mirror and say to themselves "I'm for the environment, I'm for the children, I'm for the gay people, I'm against war," it pits automatically, and the oppressor/oppressed leftist mindset that anyone that would disagree with them isn't conservative, they're crazy. They're Nazis, they're facists, they're evil.” PeopleThinkingLooksChildrenWarStatesEvilEnvironmentCrazyGayMirrorsBlueConservativeMindsetDisagreeOppressedNaziPitsOppressorsGay PeopleLeftistsAgainst War Author:Andrew Breitbart
“People went crazy with tulip bulbs. They went crazy with the South Sea Bubble, they went crazy internet stocks, they went crazy with the uranium stocks back when I was first getting started.” PeopleFirstsSeaCrazyInternetSouthBubblesBack WhenBulbsUraniumGetting Started Author:Warren Buffett
“People love to be told what they know already. It's not so much that what they say is wrong, though Ann Coulter does seem to be completely crazy.” PeopleKnowsDoeSeemsCrazy Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“[People] think [the government is] coddling people, like when people's feelings are hurt at the colleges and they send somebody in to make them feel better. Stuff like that drives [voters here] crazy.” PeopleThinkingFeelsFeelingsGovernmentStuffHurtCrazyCollegeVotersFeel Better Author:Collin Peterson
“Pushing gun control drives people [in my district] crazy, gay marriage, abortion, deficit spending.All of that stuff adds up to be a problem for Democrats.” PeopleProblemStuffCrazyGayGunAddDemocratSpendingAbortionPushingGun ControlDeficitGay MarriageDeficit Spending Author:Collin Peterson
“I had some people say to me, you don`t - you wouldn`t give air time to a holocaust denier. Why bother covering if [Donald Trump] tweet is totally crazy?” PeopleIfsGivingAirCrazyTrumpBotherHolocaustCoveringTweetWhy BotherHolocaust Deniers Author:Chuck Todd
“We're putting more carbon into the atmosphere than the atmosphere can absorb. And everybody told us when we started, coz we knew nothing when we started - we still don't know very much - but everybody told us 'this is crazy, you don't use a scientific data point, it's a number, people don't respond to numbers'.” PeopleKnowsStillsUseNumbersCrazyDataAtmosphereCarbon Author:Bill McKibben
“The book [Saving Calvinism] argues in each case that the Reformed tradition is broader and deeper than we might think at first glance - not that there are people on the margins of the tradition saying crazy things we should pay attention to, but rather that there are resources within the "mainstream" so to speak, which give us reason to think that the tradition is nowhere near as doctrinally narrow as the so-called "Five Points of Calvinism" might lead one to believe.” PeopleThinkingGivingShouldFirstsBelieveBookReasonMightSpeakPayAttentionCasesFiveCrazyResourcesTraditionDeeperArguingSavingPay AttentionMainstreamGlancesMarginsCrazy ThingsCalvinism Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“It's really an interesting crazy world where like ultimately you have to work your ass off and sacrifice a lot in your life and the end goal is personal and financial gain. You know, it's not like you're doing anything helpful to the world. You're really just trying to get ahead and to beat out the next person and to be on top and at the very top of those financial firms, like the people that make the crazy amounts of money I mean that's what their after.” PeopleKnowsWorldTryingMeanPersonsEndsNextGoalInterestingSacrificeCrazyLike YouAmountBeatsGainsFinancialAssFirmHelpfulGet AheadCrazy World Author:Dane DeHaan
“There's a lot of people scared of me, and I can't blame them. They call me crazy so much I think I'm starting to believe them.” PeopleThinkingBelieveI CanCrazyBlameStartingScaredCall MeCall Me Crazy Author:Gucci Mane
“I don't do jokes about elections so that's probably why it went okay for me, except for the crazy people that are hate-crime people.” PeopleHateCrazyCrimeJokesOkayElectionHate CrimeCrazy People Author:Jen Kirkman
“I've never seen a study, but my sense is that these are people who feel really aggrieved. These people think, "I've done everything right all my life, I'm a god-fearing Christian, I'm white, I'm male, I've worked hard, and I carry a gun. I do everything I'm supposed to do. And I'm getting shafted." And in fact they are getting shafted. For 30 years their wages have stagnated or declined, the social conditions have worsened, the children are going crazy, there are no schools, there's nothing, so somebody must be doing something to them, and they want to know who it is.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantFeelsYearsChildrenHardDoneFactsSchoolChristianSocialWhiteStudyCrazyConditionsGunMalesWagesGoing CrazySocial Conditions Author:Noam Chomsky
“There's an internal coherence and logic to what they get from [Rush] Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and the rest of these guys. And they sound very convincing, they're very self-confident, and they have an answer to everything - a crazy answer, but it's an answer. And it's our fault if that goes on. So one thing to be done is don't ridicule these people, join them, and talk about their real grievances and give them a sensible answer, like, "Take over your factories."” PeopleIfsGivingRealSelfDoneGuySoundAnswersOne ThingCrazyGoes OnLogicFaultsInternalsOver YouSensibleFactoriesRidiculeConvincingGrievanceCoherenceSelf Confident Author:Noam Chomsky
“This whole thing called the internet and all this other kind of stuff is about to go crazy. It's all going to change. But, you know what's not going to change? The talented people.” PeopleKnowsKindWholeStuffCrazyInternet Author:Jamie Foxx
“I think that Donald Trump just loves to say anything he wants no matter how crazy or untrue it might be and just keep repeating it. And he thinks that that's going to be fine. And for a lot of people, it is, so it seems to be working for him.” PeopleThinkingWantMatterSeemsMightCrazyFineTrumpSay AnythingUntrue Author:Jolene Ivey
“This [terrorists attacks on 9/11] was part of nothing. It was a leap into another realm - the realm of crazy abstractions and mythological generalities, involving people who have hijacked Islam for their own purposes. It's important not to fall into that trap and to try to respond with a metaphysical retaliation of some sort.” PeopleTryingImportantPurposeFallCrazyIslamTerroristRealmsLeapTrapsMetaphysicalAbstractionInvolvingGeneralitiesRetaliation Author:Edward Said
“When I go to Europe or South America, they laugh at things that are totally different than what Americans would laugh at. It's just so crazy how we're so different in personalities with other people.” PeopleDifferentAmericaLaughingCrazyPersonalityEuropeSouthSouth America Author:Mike Tyson
“On the road, when I do stand-up, people would always say, "What do you think about Donald Trump?" If you said, "He's crazy," they'd be like, "Yeah, he's crazy." But if you said, "I don't know - he seems interesting," they would be like, "That's really what I think."” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsSaidSeemsWould BeInterestingCrazyTrumpYeah Author:Colin Jost
“I think I realize why celebrities go crazy, do something stupid or have a nervous breakdown. Fortunately I have great people around me, but I see how that can happen.” PeopleThinkingHappensRealizingCrazyStupidNervousGreat PeopleBreakdownNervous Breakdown Author:Carrie Underwood
“I get letters every week from people who live in rural Texas or rural Mississippi and who feel totally alone. They feel like they must be the strangest person in the world. They don't fit in to the religious milieu of their communities. It doesn't make any sense to them. They read some of my columns and they know that there's somebody in the world at least as crazy as they are, and so they write and say is there anybody else?” PeopleKnowsWorldFeelsWritingPersonsCommunityReligiousWeekCrazyFitLettersTexasColumnsMississippiMilieu Author:John Shelby Spong
“I don't want to go crazy pretending to be someone all the time. But at the same time, if I have the ability to influence people, and we have X amount of energy in the day, it's not even our option anymore - it's our duty to do something positive in the world.” PeopleIfsWorldWantEnergyAbilityCrazyInfluenceDutyAmountPretendingInfluencing People Author:Lilly Singh
“I don't know what people think they're trying to do with literary novels, but they're trying to do something. They're trying to change the world, although that's so crazy. That's just delusional. But I recognize that it's crazy. It will be a little dinky change.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldTryingLittlesNovelCrazyChanging The WorldDelusionalTrying To Change Author:Carolyn See
“One of the things that always drives any practitioner of journalism crazy is you'll run it people who say why doesn't the media cover this or that? Well of course the media covered it. Why didn't you read about it? And, you know, it's, you know, there you are, it's not the journalist's job to knock down your door, you know, punch the URL into your computer and force you to stop watching the Kardashians and to read, you know, a report on integrity in government instead, it's your job.” PeopleKnowsWellsGovernmentRunningJobsCoursesForceDoorsCrazyMediaIntegrityComputerJournalismJournalistReportsCovered Author:David Frum
“The weird thing was that I went to Trump rallies thinking I was going to run into militant, right wing, racist people and mostly I didn't. That should have been a clue to me. The people I talked to were not, on the surface level, crazy. They were quite nice, quite normal, employed, and actually were wealthier than the press at that time would have led us to believe. At that time, the narrative was that these were all working poor but these were not working poor. That should've been a clue to me that this was a little bigger than I thought.” PeopleThinkingShouldBelieveLittlesHas BeensRunningPoorLevelsNiceCrazyTrumpNormalShould HaveBiggerPressesWingsSurfaceNarrativeRacistClueEmployedShould Have BeenRight WingMilitantWeird Things Author:George Saunders
“There's no logic in how Donald Trump thinks. I don't want someone who's the president who says 3 to 5 million people voted illegally when there's zero proof. It's a crazy person.” PeopleThinkingWantPersonsPresidentMillionsCrazyTrumpLogicProofZeroCrazy Person Author:Judd Apatow