Nihilistic Quotes
22 quotes by 21 authors
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Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims around the world to be…
— John O. Brennan
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Skepticism's bad rap arises from the impression that, however necessary the activity, it can only be regarded as a negative removal of false claims. Not…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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As a piece of writing, The Elementary Particles feels like a bad, self-conscious pastiche of Camus, Foucault and Bret Easton Ellis. And as a philosophical…
— Michiko Kakutani
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That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.
— Alexander McCall Smith
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The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion. It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it…
— Rocco Buttiglione
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I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me going.
— Lydia Lunch
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The GOP’s thirst for confrontation and crisis is symptomatic of a destructive and nihilistic streak that has overtaken our political system. When one party repudiates…
— Mike Lofgren
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...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on the premise of…
— Irving Kristol
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I have a nihilistic attitude so it's like, the new gay... it's popular.
— Gerard Way
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Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can't win... the view that American society is so hopelessly corrupt…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust, what…
— Octavio Paz
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I am as sure as I am of the fact of Christ's reign, that a comprehensive and centralised system of national education, separated from religion,…
— Archibald Alexander Hodge
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Here's my answer to the very real existential crisis that grips me midway through everything I've ever tried to do: I think stories help us…
— John Green
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If you look at some shows that have an ugly feel to them, or a nihilistic sort of feel to them, you'll usually find a…
— Michelle Forbes
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The punk scene in NY was so gritty and nihilistic & I was like ooh I want to do that
— Jessica Hagedorn
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The uniting of Orthodoxy with state absolutism came about on the soil of a non-belief in the Divineness of the earth, in the earthly future…
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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Nihilism in American comedy came along way before 'The Simpsons.' There was a fairly nihilistic point of view to 'Saturday Night Live,' for instance, back…
— Matt Groening
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You can look at Bad Religion, and, really, almost everything I've ever done was an exercise in creativity. I've always had a desire to challenge…
— Greg Graffin
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Purely historical thought is nihilistic; it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history.
— Albert Camus
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Black holes are pretty scary when you ponder them. They seem nihilistic, infinitely destructive on an inconceivable scale, notwithstanding the ideas of Hawking radiation.
— James Marsh
Who Wrote These Nihilistic Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 22 Nihilistic Quotes as follows: