Absurdity Quotes
352 quotes by 265 authors
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Armament should be an illegality everywhere, and some sort of international force should patrol a treaty-bound world. Partial armament is one of those absurdities dear…
— H.G. Wells
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It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. Even though you…
— Phil Ochs
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We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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When absurdities get repeated often enough, they start sounding like truth.
— T. Colin Campbell
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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
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From now on there is no longer any development immanent to art. The times have passed for history of art with a logical sense. There…
— Unknown Author
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You can read a lot about a country by looking at its beaches: across cultures, the beach is that rare public space in which all…
— Martin Parr
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What before seemed a...frustrating wall, the comic deftly and fearlessly steps through, proving the absurdity of it all.
— Bill Hicks
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Religion is a belief in invisible beings, inaudible voices, intangible entities, undetectable forces, and events and judgments that happen after we die. It therefore has…
— Greta Christina
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To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top…
— Martin Cruz Smith
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There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully, educated people can…
— Martin Gardner
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To me absurdity is the only reality
— Frank Zappa
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FAITH. No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. It’s the poison that destroys…
— PZ Myers
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Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year sends…
— David C. Coates
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In our search for more, we have blinded ourselves to our personal responsibility for challenging these absurdities. A resource-based society considers us all equal shareholders…
— Jacque Fresco
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I was always fascinated by the absurdities and luxuries and the snobbism of the world that fashion magazines showed. Of course, it’s not for everyone...But…
— Diana Vreeland
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Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than in…
— Albert J. Nock
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We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many…
— Richard Lewontin
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The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts... painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and other absurdities of…
— Sylvia Pankhurst
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Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made…
— Timothy Radcliffe
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