Absurdity Quote by Thomas Mellon

Life packed a clever one-two punch: cruelty and absurdity.

— Dean Koontz

“And therein is a lesson that can be learned by all who fight the purveyors of hatred and lies. Though the battle against our…

— Deborah E. Lipstadt

“There are people that are convinced of the wickedness both of armies and of police forces, but who are nevertheless much more intolerant and…

— George Orwell

“if someone merely wishes to provoke you, shake the dust from your feet and carry on. Fight only with a worthy opponent, and not…

— Paulo Coelho

Sometimes when we're incensed by the rancid tide of injustice, the impulse is to attack. We must avoid this. We have learned that violence…

— Russell Brand

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail,…

— Noam Chomsky

When struck on one cheek to turn the other, is really joining a conspiracy to secure the triumph of brutality. To agree not to…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Violence does not necessarily take people by the throat and strangle them. Usually it demands no more than an ultimate allegiance from its subjects.…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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

When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them.

— Nelson Mandela

Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt…

— Albert Camus

One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in terms of…

— Eckhart Tolle