One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
My space chums think reality was once a primitive method of crowd control that got out of hand. In my view, it’s… — Jane Wagner Copy Share Image
We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art,… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
They gutted the book, making an action movie for 15-25 year olds. Tolkien became...devoured by his popularity and absorbed by the absurdity… — Christopher Tolkien Copy Share Image
The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts... painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and… — Sylvia Pankhurst Copy Share Image
When my father would come home from his work at the Senate and talk about the things he could talk about -… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
It is one thing, then, to say, "The Bible contains the religion revealed by God ," and quite another to say, "Whatever… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Most expositions of Aristotle's doctrines, when they have not been dictated by a spirit of virulent detraction, or unsympathetic indifference, have carefully… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Major Greene this evening fell into some conversation with me about the Divinity and satisfaction of Jesus Christ. All the argument he… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“The feeling of absurdity does not spring from the mere scrutiny of a fact or an impression, but that it bursts from… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Without the constantly living and articulated eperience of absurdity, there would be no reason to attempt to do something meaningful. And on… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I think that absurdity in literature looks into a lack of meaning in some important and fundamental way. It allows us to… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
What a weak, credulous, incredulous, unbelieving, superstitious, bold, frightened, what a ridiculous world ours is, as far as concerns the mind of… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
As for democracy, the men of sense among us knew what it was, and I perhaps as well as any, as I… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“ The quality you most admire in a man? Courage moral and physical: 'anima'—the ability to think like a woman. Also a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I want the Brahmins to realize that the Dravidian people today are very much hating those who cunningly cheated them with absurdities.… — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Copy Share Image
I don't like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don't really understand the word 'irony' too much. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I have found to be so interesting in my life and with my friends and family who have 'normal jobs' where… — Miriam Shor Copy Share Image
Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost… — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit;… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Despite the absurdity and the silliness and the triviality of the entire campaign experience, there is also something, as non-cynical as this… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
For any truth, if “overdone” (as Dietzgen Senior put it), if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its actual applicability,… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
It often happens that the universal belief of one age, a belief from which no one was free or could be free… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
If you create a visual that actually captures the imagination, that's not real. It will look real, and that will spread at… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
It's an absurdity to just wish for a world of chaos without anything viable in its place. I'm loyal to my culture,… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Christianity is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals,… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
I hold all idea of regulating the currency to be an absurdity; the very terms of regulating the currency and managing the… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
Nothing is off-limits. There's just some things I cannot crack. Politics I can't do. When I start to talk about it, I… — Ali Wong Copy Share Image
I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
![“Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its falsehood, his conduct would have, been more suited to the modesty of the skeptic and the toleration of the philosopher.” quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/581/percy-bysshe-shelley-476_absurdity_had-this-author-sir-w-drummond-academica_2448856.jpg)
