Mad or MAD may refer to:
- Infection with rabies, from the Latin term for madness
- Moroccan dirham, the ISO 4217 code for the currency of Morocco
- The state of having anger
- The state of insanity
- A variant of the Hindi-Urdu word for alcohol, madhu, pronounced with a soft "d" and cognate with the word mead
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Famous quotes containing the word mad:
“If someone does something we disapprove of, we regard him as bad if we believe we can deter him from persisting in his conduct, but we regard him as mad if we believe we cannot. In either case, the crucial issue is our control of the other: the more we lose control over him, and the more he assumes control over himself, the more, in case of conflict, we are likely to consider him mad rather than just bad.”
—Thomas Szasz (b. 1920)
“And when his hours are numbered, and the world
Is all his own, retiring, as he were not,
Leaves, when the sun appears, astonished Art
To mimic in slow structures, stone by stone,
Built in an age, the mad wind’s night-work,
The frolic architecture of the snow.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)