Absurdity Quote by Oswald Mosley Download Open image “A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.” — Oswald Mosley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absurdity Achiever Mind Occasional Prophet Risk Success
I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“the prophet’s calling, though laudable, is laughable. More, the prophet’s intensity makes him look ridiculous. Is there any person more pathetic than the prophet… — Marc H. Ellis Copy Share Image
I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life. — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
“only while under the dominion of fear do men fall a prey to superstition; that all the portents ever invested with the reverence of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“What is a 'false prophet'? Those who lie by attributing personal biases to divine source.” — Leland Lewis Copy Share Image
“Such are the limitations of the human mind, and so thoroughly engrossing are the cares of common life, that only the few among men… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power. — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience. — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers. — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
“It is the principal paradox of this period that the only sphere of our economic system in which government intervention is urgently necessary is… — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
Those who march with us will certainly face abuse, misunderstanding, bitter animosity, and possibly the ferocity of struggle and of danger. In return, we… — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
“The Press will not be free to tell lies. That is not freedom for the people, but a tyranny over their minds and souls.… — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
Ideas in a void have never appealed to me; action must follow thought or political life is meaningless. — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
I am not, and never have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre… — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
Faced with the alternative of saying goodbye to the gold standard, and therefore to his own employment, and goodbye to other people's employment, Mr.… — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
Together in Britain we have lit a flame that the ages shall not extinguish. Guard that sacred flame my brother Blackshirts until it illuminates… — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all… — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato's advice to find men carefully and… — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
“Newspapers are not made any longer by news or journalism. They are made by sheer weight of money expressed in free gift schemes. They… — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd… — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken 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
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Desire is this absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility. Ever optimistic, ever resourceful, desire tells us what it sees as it speeds… — Wendy Farley Copy Share Image
I've always felt that comedy doesn't just come from misery. It comes from an absurdity around that misery. — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
“Christianity would be helpless without the idea of free will and the idea of free will would be helpless without incongruity.” — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image