Absurd Quotes

832 Absurd quotes by 611 unique authors

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
Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it's original and good for their health,… — Thomas Bernhard
If sub specie aeternitatis there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can approach our absurd… — Thomas Nagel
People take it for granted that the physical world is both ordered and intelligible. The underlying order in nature - the laws of physics -… — Paul Davies
It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it… — Beryl Markham
This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished… — Chiwetel Ejiofor
To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet,… — Metrodorus of Chios
Islam, this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
There is no place for [the Bantu] in the European community above the level of certain forms of labour ... What is the use of… — Hendrik Verwoerd
I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd. — Wilhelm Reich
The piled-up dead of political violence are a generic staple of our information diet these days, and according to the generic report all massacres are… — Philip Gourevitch
Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy… — Murray Rothbard
To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd. — Aleister Crowley
What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer… — Eliphas Levi
It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts. — Benjamin Graham
So man's insanity is heaven's sense, and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd… — Unknown Author

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