Absurdity Quotes

352 quotes by 265 authors

Southerners take no issue with absurdity. We donâ€™t pretend the world is logical or fair. If there were a signature regional gesture it would be… — Allison Glock
My space chums think reality was once a primitive method of crowd control that got out of hand. In my view, itâ€™s absurdity dressed up… — Jane Wagner
An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken; it may involve… — Frances Wright
Born to an age where horror has become commonplace, where tragedy has, by its monotonous repetition, become a parody of sorrow, we need to fence… — Thomas Boswell
If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether one is a… — Chester Himes
The idea that the bumps or depressions on a man's head indicate the presence or absence of certain moral characteristics in his mental equipment is… — Edward Anthony Spitzka
No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those who renounce Christianity,… — Charles Caleb Colton
The absurdity of public-choice theory is captured by Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen in the following little scenario: "Can you direct me to the railway… — Linda McQuaig
Leaps of innovation require a bravery that borders on absurdity. — Astro Teller
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts — Saint John Chrysostom
Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations,… — Alexander Herzen
The notion that any one person can describe 'what really happened' is an absurdity. If ten - or a hundred - people witness an event,… — David Eddings
The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow. — Francis Atterbury
Fobbit is fast, razor sharp, and seven kinds of hilarious. Thank you, Mr. Abrams, for the much needed salve--it feels good to finally laugh about… — Jonathan Evison
The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of — Orson Pratt
Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all… — Iain Pears
No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing. — Bernard Levin
School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural… — Jules Henry
Christianity is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals, and then spread… — Frederick The Great
Nima Shirazi is a rare voice of rational analysis and political insight that provides an eloquent counter to the pervasive absurdities that make up popular… — Susan Abulhawa

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