“You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Only man behaves… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
For some high-profile men in trouble, women, especially feminist women, became the all-purpose scapegoats-charged with crimes that often descended into the absurd. — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
For years now, the fake European 'left' is trying to portray European citizens as victims of the US imperialism. It is even… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seemsas absurd… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I remember watching Meryl Streep in, The River Wild. There's this scene where she's has a gun pointed at her, it's absurd… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
There you see how absurd the reactions of the so-called markets are. For a long time, Italy was run by one of… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“O.K., then, all right, they would adopt a white-trash dog. Ha ha. They could name it Zeke, buy it a little corncob… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Al Bernstein has seen cable television sports grow up. In 30 Years/30 Undeniable Truths he looks at his time in the industry… — Barry Tompkins Copy Share Image
I understand that it was Derian who spoiled everything; he purposefully tainted your view of me and forced you to follow him.… — Shalini Copy Share Image
Grace is in a great measure a natural gift; elegance implies cultivation; or something of more artificial character. A rustic, uneducated girl… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
... For all our alarm, it is clear that the religious right is responding to a real hunger in our society... a… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
“I don't let my spaghetti dangle, or twirl it around my fork. I cut it. Of course, my preferred slicing utensil is… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
Some people have a very strange idea that material success does not coincide harmoniously with self-realization, which is absurd. The aversion to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Money is speech. It's incongruous to say a multimillionaire can spend as much on his own campaign as he wants, but you… — Roger Stone Copy Share Image
“I say that ambition is absurd, and yet I remain in its thrall. It’s like being a slave all your life, then… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It's absurd to think of 'Pride and Prejudice,' this classic, beloved book, beset with a zombie uprising. The goal is to make… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
I walk through the seasons and always the birds are singing and screaming and keening for love When you're with me it… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
There may be something universal about idealizing the past, but I think it's taken to an absurd degree in New York, which… — Vestal McIntyre Copy Share Image
The belief that it is useless to employ partial and palliative means against radical evils, because they only remedy them in part,… — Theodor Mommsen Copy Share Image
According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I just don't know when we all decided that if it doesn't fit in a Happy Meal box, it's not for kids.… — Gore Verbinski Copy Share Image
Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
You talk more when you're nervous," he said, still standing close to her. "No i don't. That's absurd. I'm just trying to… — Michele Jaffe Copy Share Image
In proportion as the machine is improved and performs man's work with an ever increasing rapidity and exactness, the labourer, instead of… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell… — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
