History Quotes / TheyCalledMeMad

->''"They say madness runs in our family. Some even dared call me mad. Do you know why? Because I dared to dream of my own race of atomic monsters, atomic supermen! With octagonal shaped bodies that suck blood out of -- ''[unintelligible gibberish]'' with straws."''

->"Why do they still call me a 'warlord'? And 'mad'? All I want to do is [[IResembleThatRemark create the perfect genetic soldier!]]"

->"That's what they called me at the Masters' and Joshson's clinic. 'Mad'! Because I had visions of explorations in sexual areas undreamed of by lesser human beings! It was I who first discovered how to make a man impotent by hiding his hat. I was the first one to explain the connection between excessive masturbation and entering politics. It was I who first said that clitoral orgasm should not be only for women. They laughed at me, ridiculed me, said I was mad! Ha ha! But I show them! Ha ha! They threw me out of Master's and Johnson's. No severance pay. And I had it coming! But I showed them!"
-->--'''Dr. Bernardo''', ''Film/EverythingYouWantedToKnowAboutSexButWereAfraidToAsk''

->'''{{ComicBook/Thanos}}''': Titan was like most planets: [[OverpopulationCrisis too many mouths, not enough to go around]]. And when we faced extinction, I offered a solution.\\
'''ComicBook/DoctorStrange''': [[FinalSolution Genocide.]]\\
'''Thanos''': At random. Dispassionate. Fair for rich and poor alike. They called me a "madman," and what I predicted came to pass.

-->--'''Dr. Eric Vornoff''', ''Film/BrideOfTheMonster''

-->--'''Dr. Lorenzo Cameron''', ''Film/TheMadMonster''

->''From earliest childhood you were ridiculed and ostracized by your so-called "peers" - sniveling cretins who refused to recognize your genius. Your classmates, your teachers, your family, the whole damnable human species - all of them mocked you, taunted you, belittled you. Curled up in your parents basement, with ''[[UsefulNotes/CharlesDarwin The Origin of Species]]'' under one arm and ''Literature/WhereTheWildThingsAre'' under the other, you vowed to show them all. You grew up and received your doctorate in genetics. But were you respected? Did a Nobel Prize adorn your dingy little campus cubicle? Were the fruits of your labors lauded in the halls of science? No, oh no. "Crackpot," they called you. "Half-baked," they called your ideas. "Professor Bug-Eyes," they whispered behind your back. But you were right. There were monsters in the world, and you would find them. You would be their tyrant king!''
-->--'''The Monster Maker''', ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade -- Clanbook: Tzimisce''

-->--''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension -- Tradition Book: Sons of Ether'' [[note]]Who usually walk a wobbly line between MadScientist and ScienceHero[[/note]]

'''Lawrence:''' [[ServileSnarker That should clear things right up,]] sir.

->"They said I was mad! Preposterous! There's not an angry bone in my body! [[LiterallyMinded Had them all removed!]]"
-->--'''[[BrainInAJar Dr. Mobius]]''', ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas: Old World Blues''

->"It appears that you have showed them all. Furthermore, it seems very unlikely that they will laugh at you again."
-->--''VideoGame/FallenLondon''

->"They told me I would never destroy the earth! They told me I was mad! And now they can all go f**k themselves!"
-->--'''The Mastermind''', ''VideoGame/MastermindWorldConqueror''

->'''Wily''': The world called me "mad"! "Insane," Proto!\\
'''Protoman''': Sounds right to me.
-->--''WesternAnimation/MegaManRubySpears''

->"Oh, 'mad,' am I? Yes, that's what they all say, hee hee hee! But I'll show you who's mad! Yes! For when I rule the world, then you'll see who's mad! '''Yes!''"
-->--'''Caractacus P. Doom''', ''WesternAnimation/AvengerPenguins''

->"They say madness runs in our family. Some even dared call me mad. Do you know why? Because I dared to dream of my own race of atomic monsters, atomic supermen! With octagonal shaped bodies that suck blood out of --- [unintelligible gibberish] with straws."
-->--'''Professor Hubert Farnsworth''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''

->"They called me 'crazy'! They called me 'insane'! They called me 'looney'! And, boy, were they right."
-->--'''Megavolt''', ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck''

->"Look, Smithers! A twitch. It's moving! It's alive! Oh, that fellow at Radioshack said I was mad! Well, who's mad now?!" ''[EvilLaugh]''
-->--'''Mr. Burns''', [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E7TreehouseOfHorrorII "Treehouse of Horror II"]]

->-"I don't ''like'' to be laughed at. I promised those fools at the power company a revolutionary source of cheap power, and they laughed at me!"
-->--'''Professor Norton Nimnul''', ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers''

->"In the course of my life I have very often been a prophet, and have usually been ridiculed for it."
-->--'''UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler''', speech to the Reichstag, 30 January 1939

->"Have you ever seen the coyote in the desert? Watching, tuned in, completely aware. Christ on the cross, the coyote in the desert — it’s the same thing, man. The coyote is beautiful. He moves through the desert delicately, aware of everything, looking around. He hears every sound, smells every smell, sees everything that moves. He’s in a state of total paranoia, and total paranoia is total awareness."
-->--'''UsefulNotes/CharlesManson'''

->''The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton[[note]]Inventor of the first commercially successful steamship[[/note]], they laughed at the Wright Brothers. [[SoWasX But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.]]''

->"I'm like a chimpanzee, in a tree, jumping up and down, warning other chimpanzees when I see a big cat coming through the woods... ''I'm'' the weirdo? Because I'm sitting in a tree going "OOH OOH AAH AAH AAH OOH AAH AAH OOH OOH OOH AAH AAH AAH AAH AAH'?!"
-->--'''Alex Jones'''

->''The reason we don't believe Ray is correct is because our educational system is a conspiracy to make us stupid. Ray knows. He is the wisest person in the universe -- at least he repeatedly asserts so on his websites and when “explaining” the hypothesis (often instead of explaining the hypothesis, in fact).''

->"They called me mad, [[NoYou and I called them mad]], and damn them, they outvoted me."

->"They all laughed when I demonstrated my notorious 11-shot shotgun..."

-->--''WesternAnimation/MegaMan''

->''"I AM NOT MAD!" cried Zarkendorf, his eyes bulging madly. "For years people like you laughed at my name! They called me a nerd--they said I should get out of my mother's basement and get a life! I swore that one day I would make them all pay! The world will soon tremble at the name Heinrich Dorfmenstein Zarkendorf!"\\\