Absurd Quotes
832 Absurd quotes by 611 unique authors
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There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual can spend as…
— Arlen Specter
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Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
— Baruch Spinoza
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It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're…
— Paul Stanley
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There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.
— Laurence Sterne
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I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that…
— Patrick Stewart
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Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not outright lies.
— James Surowiecki
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The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may…
— Stanley Tucci
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The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
— Paul Valery
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
— Voltaire
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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
— Voltaire
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To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
— Voltaire
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
— Evelyn Waugh
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You know, I always was an early morning or late night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline.…
— Joss Whedon
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
— Oscar Wilde
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There is this absurd assumption that the revitalisation of the public sphere is always a good thing. I think people tend to confuse 'civic' and…
— Evgeny Morozov
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It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
— George Orwell
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I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland.
— Woody Allen
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The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
— William Goldman
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To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize…
— Robert Harris
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