"No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those……" — Bernard Levin
"No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing."
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11 Quotes by Bernard Levin
Bernard Levin has 11 quotes on this site.
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Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why,…
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In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are…
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The Stag at Bay with the mentality of a fox at large.
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Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of…
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If we expected self-reliance of family groups, if we expected hardiness and resilience and initiative on the part of individuals,…
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I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the…
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The less the power, the greater the desire to exercise it.
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Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.
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Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British…
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What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain…
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More Absurdity Quotes
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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of…
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This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of…
— Annie Besant
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of…
— Samuel Butler
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My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out…
— Lord Byron
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
— Albert Camus
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Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe…
— Albert Camus
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It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by…
— Norman Angell
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When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and…
— Sigmund Freud
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Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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