Quote by George Eliot

Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lun

Summary

This quote suggests that in order to conform and avoid being considered 'lunatics' in society, sane individuals tend to follow the behavior of their neighbors. By observing and imitating the actions of those around them, people hope to distinguish themselves from any actual lunatics or abnormal behavior. The quote highlights the pressure individuals feel to assimilate and blend in with societal norms as a means of maintaining their own sanity and avoiding potential social consequences.

By George Eliot

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin

Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and to watch over them in tenderness. When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what pow'r it has over my mind.

Joseph Smith Jr.

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

Life Nature Beauty Sadness Beatles

It's not about failure it's about trying something and riski

It's not about failure it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal.

If we had been less reliant on technology and the security t

If we had been less reliant on technology and the security that we enjoy in being divorced from what we used to know, maybe things would have turned out differently.

Heather Donahue

Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind inte

Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?

Lawrence G. Lovasik

A word to the wise is enough

A word to the wise is enough

Benjamin Franklin

Wisdom Life Words

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no suc

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

George Robert Gissing

Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Ba

Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.

Experience is largely non-transferable.

Experience is largely non-transferable.

The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his

The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.

Fabrizio Moreira

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pi

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.

Michael Jackson

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that di

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.

Marcus Aurelius

Judgment Judging