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Absurd Quotes

People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance with life Picture Quote #1

I think I wish I had never spanked my children, but I have. And they remember every instance like they tattooed it on their palms. I think it’s a terrible lesson, to use physical punishment to make a point about not behaving, not being kind to their siblings, to other people. I mean that’s just absurd. But I’ve lost it, I understand it Picture Quote #1

There’s this absurd situation on a movie set where your trailer’s here and the set is here and the lunch tent is here, and you’re not allowed to get yourself from these three places Picture Quote #1

If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy Picture Quote #1

Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges from what man most dreads: isolation Picture Quote #1

Take the birds which you’ll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their own accord; they were born on the canvas... it is absurd to read any sort of symbolic significance into them Picture Quote #1

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It’s really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it Picture Quote #1

Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and absurd. He should be arrested for the sole purpose of teaching him how to earn a living by his work Picture Quote #1

To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible Picture Quote #1

A real liberated teacher never asks for a commitment from a student. That’s absurd, a person wants to be there and they want to learn everything they can Picture Quote #1

There’s this absurd innate need in most men to feel that they’re more powerful than women are, which is ridiculous Picture Quote #1

To think that fulfilling yourself in this world will create eternal fulfillment is absurd. But we feel this way because we lack purity Picture Quote #1

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Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense Picture Quote #1

There’s something very sinister about a woman who is predatory but has an absurd voice working as a disservice to her Picture Quote #1

We have to stop arresting prostitutes and not arresting traffickers and pimps. It’s absurd. We’re arresting the victim or the survivor and not the oppressor Picture Quote #1

There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation. It is essential to know whether one can live with it or whether, on the other hand, logic commands one to die of it Picture Quote #1

There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find myself amongst strangers, I should be solicitous to examine before I condemned Picture Quote #1

The fundamental law of capitalism is: when workers have more money, businesses have more customers, and need more workers. The idea that high wages equals low employment, it’s absurd Picture Quote #1

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I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing Picture Quote #1

Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd Picture Quote #1

For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be a falsehood, or falsehood a truth Picture Quote #1

Swinburne was an absurd character. He was a bird of showy strut and plumage. One could not but admire his glorious feathers; but, as soon as he began to moult... one saw how very little body there was underneath Picture Quote #1

The belief that it is useless to employ partial and palliative means against radical evils, because they only remedy them in part, is an article of faith never preached unsuccessfully by meanness to simplicity, but it is none the less absurd Picture Quote #1

I find it ironic to read stories about myself which have never occurred and are simply so absurd that they are comical. At other times, it is very painful to be so misinterpreted and vilified Picture Quote #1

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It is absurd to entrust the defense of a country to people who own nothing in it Picture Quote #1

The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all Picture Quote #1

What primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about Picture Quote #1

If you look over a list of medicinal recipes in vogue in the last century, how foolish and useless they are seen to be! And yet we use equally absurd ones with faith today Picture Quote #1

True emancipation... will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and woman represent two antagonistic worlds Picture Quote #1

The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason Picture Quote #1

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People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance with life (Absurd Quotes) I think I wish I had never spanked my children, but I have. And they remember every instance like they tattooed it on their palms. I think it’s a terrible lesson, to use physical punishment to make a point about not behaving, not being kind to their siblings, to other people. I mean that’s just absurd. But I’ve lost it, I understand it (Absurd Quotes) There’s this absurd situation on a movie set where your trailer’s here and the set is here and the lunch tent is here, and you’re not allowed to get yourself from these three places (Absurd Quotes) If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy (Absurd Quotes) Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges from what man most dreads: isolation (Absurd Quotes) Take the birds which you’ll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their own accord; they were born on the canvas... it is absurd to read any sort of symbolic significance into them (Absurd Quotes) It’s really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it (Absurd Quotes) Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and absurd. He should be arrested for the sole purpose of teaching him how to earn a living by his work (Absurd Quotes) To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible (Absurd Quotes) A real liberated teacher never asks for a commitment from a student. That’s absurd, a person wants to be there and they want to learn everything they can (Absurd Quotes) There’s this absurd innate need in most men to feel that they’re more powerful than women are, which is ridiculous (Absurd Quotes) To think that fulfilling yourself in this world will create eternal fulfillment is absurd. But we feel this way because we lack purity (Absurd Quotes) Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense (Absurd Quotes) There’s something very sinister about a woman who is predatory but has an absurd voice working as a disservice to her (Absurd Quotes) We have to stop arresting prostitutes and not arresting traffickers and pimps. It’s absurd. We’re arresting the victim or the survivor and not the oppressor (Absurd Quotes) There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation. It is essential to know whether one can live with it or whether, on the other hand, logic commands one to die of it (Absurd Quotes) There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find myself amongst strangers, I should be solicitous to examine before I condemned (Absurd Quotes) The fundamental law of capitalism is: when workers have more money, businesses have more customers, and need more workers. The idea that high wages equals low employment, it’s absurd (Absurd Quotes) I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing (Absurd Quotes) Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd (Absurd Quotes) For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be a falsehood, or falsehood a truth (Absurd Quotes) Swinburne was an absurd character. He was a bird of showy strut and plumage. One could not but admire his glorious feathers; but, as soon as he began to moult... one saw how very little body there was underneath (Absurd Quotes) The belief that it is useless to employ partial and palliative means against radical evils, because they only remedy them in part, is an article of faith never preached unsuccessfully by meanness to simplicity, but it is none the less absurd (Absurd Quotes) I find it ironic to read stories about myself which have never occurred and are simply so absurd that they are comical. At other times, it is very painful to be so misinterpreted and vilified (Absurd Quotes) It is absurd to entrust the defense of a country to people who own nothing in it (Absurd Quotes) The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all (Absurd Quotes) What primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about (Absurd Quotes) If you look over a list of medicinal recipes in vogue in the last century, how foolish and useless they are seen to be! And yet we use equally absurd ones with faith today (Absurd Quotes) True emancipation... will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and woman represent two antagonistic worlds (Absurd Quotes) The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason (Absurd Quotes)

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