Absurd Quotes - Page 38

• ... For all our alarm, it is clear that the religious right is responding to a real hunger in our society... a deep-seated yearning for stable values... When conservative Christian groups talk of failures in our educational system, the erosion of our moral standards, and the waste of young lives, they are addressing real and legitimate concerns... Among secularists, the aversion toward discussion of moral values, let alone religion, can reach absurd extremes.

  Norman Lear

  Christian, Religious, Real

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• The purpose of bread and circuses is, as Neil Postman said in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, to distract, to divert emotional energy towards the absurd and the trivial and the spectacle while you are ruthlessly stripped of power.

  Chris Hedges

  Book, Emotional, Energy

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• I know it's absurd, but they're out saying so, and Hillary [Clinton] makes a big, big deal about climate change.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Climate, Clinton, Bigs

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The Western press has always insisted that India was Pakistan's enemy and vice versa, that the Hindus were against the Muslims and vice versa. They've never said, for instance, that my party has been fighting this attitude ever since we have maintained that religious hostilities are wrong and absurd, that minorities cannot be eliminated from a country, that people of different religions must live together.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Religious, Attitude

  Source: sangam.org

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• There's absolutely no reason for NATO to be sticking its fingers up the nostrils of Russia at every orifice. I mean, it's absurd. It's absolutely absurd.

  Rashid Khalidi

  Mean, Russia, Reason

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• I like that feeling of discombobulation that comes in creating an absurd world that doesn't make sense.

  Reggie Watts

  Creating, Feelings, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I like to ride the line between absurd and sincere.

  Reggie Watts

  Lines, Sincere

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere.

  Reggie Watts

  Song, Piano, Sincere

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If I can learn a couple of phrases in Italian but do mostly weird, absurd music things, people will like it.

  Reggie Watts

  Couple, Italian, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It's not something that can be measured by money or by certain numbers.

  Ai Weiwei

  Numbers, Giving, Matter

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• In America you have the mouse now trying to sit down on the elephant, thinking that he's going somewhere. And it's - and it's absurd.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, Elephants, America

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• Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.

  Billy Eichner

  Fun, Awards, Watches

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The real news has gotten more surreal and absurd, and my fake news, if you want to call it that, has gotten more plausible. And at some point, those two trend lines crossed.

  Andy Borowitz

  Real, Two, Fake

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think the Electoral College is an absurd 18th-century construct. But that is the law.

  David Remnick

  College, Thinking, Law

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I had this idea about terrible things happening to orphans, and I knew it was such a horrible idea that the idea of writing it down and then submitting it professionally was obviously absurd.

  Daniel Handler

  Writing, Ideas, Down And

  "Not My Job: Author Daniel Handler Gets Quizzed On Baggage Handlers". Interview with Peter Sagal, wvasfm.org. January 21, 2017.

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• Donald Trump has gone from making absurd comments to being downright dangerous with his bombastic rhetoric.

  Lindsey Graham

  Gone, Trump, Dangerous

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• One of my central approaches to writing speculative fiction is to take an absurd situation, which we presently feel is normal, and then push it to an even further absurdity. It's only in this light that we can see the reflection of the disturbing state of our present-day affairs.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Writing, Reflection, Light

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Mass delusion is the result of the effort. Propaganda is one of the techniques. But it mentioned things like you create a consensus of something that's totally absurd. You get people believing something totally absurd, however that's done, and then the people with common sense come along and say, "No, no, no. That's totally wrong," and they end up being the new kooks and weirdos. They are the ones society thinks are cockeyed and weird.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Note to conservatives: sometimes you just have to give up. Do you really care that much about killing lots of bad guys as opposed to letting them rot in prison for the rest of their lives? It might be time to let go and save your energy for other battles. This one is getting absurd.

  Kevin Drum

  Letting Go, Giving Up, Guy

  "Arizona Suggests Forced Suicide For Death Row Inmates" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. February 18, 2017.

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• It is preposterous to believe that the Russians had any effect on the outcome of voting in America. It's absurd. There is no evidence.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, America, Voting

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In the future, every human will have a digital model of their body stored in computers. When someone needs a new shoe or a new bra or a new prosthesis or a new brace, s/he'll just fabricate it from the digital model themselves and then the device or article will be delivered to the home without even having to go to a retail store. The shoe, the bra, the brace, it'll be the person's apparel, the person's device, no one else's. It'll be exquisitely comfortable and functional. So this whole notion today where we have sizing to fit across humans is just utterly absurd.

  Hugh Herr

  Home, Shoes, Body

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now if this is true, it would be absurd to be eager for nothing but this all their lives, and then to be troubled when that came for which they had all along been eagerly practicing.

  Plato

  Philosophy, People, Dying

  Plato (1913). “Plato”

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• The ethnocultural connotations of the burkini ban are very strong. It's as absurd as mandating that women have to go topless on the beach. If I were a woman, I definitely would not want to wear a burkini or a headscarf. But it's not about what I want.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Beach, Strong, Want

  "Love in the Time of Mass Migration". Interview With Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. March 4, 2017.

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• In any case, the idea of giving "all" of reality is overly simple and absurd.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Simple, Reality, Ideas

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• It's very easy for me to begin to believe the publicity about myself, whether for or against. It can give you an absurd idea of yourself. I know that there's a fine balance between accepting your own power with grace and misusing it. And I don't ever want to portray myself as a representative of the voiceless. I'm scared of that.

  Arundhati Roy

  Believe, Ideas, Giving

  Source: progressive.org

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