Absurd Quote by George Orwell

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

— George Orwell

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.

— George Orwell

If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution but because…

— George Orwell

The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.

— George Orwell

“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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

— Anatole France