Absurd Quotes

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The gun control mentality is ruthlessly absurd. It suggests that you pass a law which will bind law-abiding citizens â€” they won't have access to… — Alan Keyes
Congressman Frank and Senator Dodd wanted the government to push financial institutions to lend to people they would not lend to otherwise, because of the… — Thomas Sowell
I think people perceive my creatures as absurd because they look different, but at the same time, they are a little bit familiar. I want… — Unknown Author
The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima"-the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a… — Christopher Hitchens
It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners. — Oscar Wilde
When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to… — Baron d'Holbach
That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of… — George Berkeley
Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way of doing things;… — Giuseppe Verdi
It is absurd to look for perfection. — Camille Pissarro
If things do not exist as fixed, independent entities, then how can they die? Our notion of death as the sudden expiration of that which… — Mark Epstein
Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive. Desperate womanhood. Madonna is closer to organized prostitution than anything else. — Steven Morrissey
Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause… — Benito Mussolini
America has no north, no south, no east, no west. The sun rises over the hills and sets over the mountains, the compass just points… — Unknown Author
Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he has not understood… — Peter Abelard
No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men will… — Henry George
Quality without science and research is absurd. You can't make inferences that something works when you have 60 percent missing data. — Peter Pronovost
Having members of the Bush administration actually sit down and discuss counter terrorism with the very countries that support terrorists is absurd. — Frank Lautenberg
But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting… — Helen Garner
The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually happened in this… — W G Sebald
The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for the love song… — Nick Cave

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