"Crackpot" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and time travelers simply don't understand, though to be so blind it seems to me that they have to overlook much of the history of the Last War and of the subsequent years, especially the mushrooming of crackpot cults with a murder tinge: the werewolf gangs, the Berserkers and Amuckers, the revival of Shiva worship and the Black Mass, the machine wreckers, the kill-the-killers movements, the new witchcraft, the Unholy Creepers, the Unconsciousers, the radioactive blue gods and rocket devils of the Atomites, ...
— The Night of the Long Knives • Fritz Reuter Leiber
... it will stay. I simply won't destroy it, but I can think of nobody to whom I'd be willing to show it—certainly nobody at the college, my History Department colleagues least of all. Merely to tell the story would brand me irredeemably as a crackpot, but crackpots are tolerated, even on college faculties. It's only when they begin producing physical evidence that they get ...
— Crossroads of Destiny • Henry Beam Piper
... was always the trouble with those crackpot blokes' explanations of them. If they were aliens from space, ...
— I'm a Stranger Here Myself • Dallas McCord Reynolds |
