Nihilistic Quotes

22 Nihilistic quotes by 21 unique authors

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
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
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
That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic. — Alexander McCall Smith
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
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
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
...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
I have a nihilistic attitude so it's like, the new gay... it's popular. — Gerard Way
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.
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
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
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
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
The punk scene in NY was so gritty and nihilistic & I was like ooh I want to do that — Jessica Hagedorn
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
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
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
Purely historical thought is nihilistic; it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history. — Albert Camus
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
What every artist should try to prevent is the car, in whichis our civilized life, plunging over the side of the precipicethe exhibitionist extremist promoter… — Unknown Author

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