All we need to waken from our collective stupor is a mad prophet to arouse us.

And the King answered: "A mad prophet."

I read for three hours, raving like a mad prophet, and held them spellbound.

In "Network" a character played by Peter Finch, the "mad prophet of the airwaves," rails against the phenomenon.

One becomes his town's mad prophet, announcing that a spell of erratic severe weather and other natural events - toads, locusts, murrain - are biblical, a judgment.

We will not send mad prophets to break up your rallies and infringe on your rights.

"Well, at least there won't be any mad prophets over there."

He becomes known throughout the city as the watchman of Kingston-a sort of mad prophet or mendicant, and becomes the subject of a reggae song.

However, Sia runs away and finds shelter in the home of a mad prophet who has railed against the king.

How totally sane the mad prophet turned out to be.