Absurd Quote by Daniel Berrigan Download Open image “Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.” — Daniel Berrigan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absurd Agree Theatre
Whereas Absurdism in Europe seemed a logical, almost inevitable response to the irrationality of war, the analogous elements that surfaced in American drama seemed… — Arnold Aronson Copy Share Image
Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But they very… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
The American Way is so restlessly creative as to be essentially destructive; the American Way is to carry common sense itself almost to the… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
I think we think that American books are funny or they're serious literature. But humor is subversive. When you add an element of absurdism,… — Idra Novey Copy Share Image
Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism. — Alan Jay Lerner Copy Share Image
To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is...thinking, 'This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.' — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“Theater in America is a kind of weed sprouting up in the weirdest places. It's deeply democratic and deeply human, and I think it's… — Mac Wellman Copy Share Image
And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits. — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal. — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
Of course, let us have peace, we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let our lives… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent,… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
Faith is rarely where your head is at. Nor is it where your heart is at. Faith is where your ass is at! — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was,… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred. — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
“It seem absurd to me that they don't know, haven't felt any change or tremor, even as my life has been completely turned upside… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps… — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod." "A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But of course… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To deprecate human reason by saying that none of us is or can be omniscient is absurd, for it takes an impossible standard as… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“Rachel got up and did this happy little shuffle, like she was some cheerful farmer chick who'd just stepped outside to find the hick… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
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