Nonsense Quotes - Page 31

• I joined the party because I was a revolutionary, not because of any ideological nonsense.

  Hermann Goring

  Party, History, Nazism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No Romeo-and-Juliet acts, no nonsense about Love with a large L, none of that popular song claptrap with its skies of blue, dreams come true, heaven with you. Just sensuality for its own sake.

  Aldous Huxley

  Love, Dream, Song

  Aldous Huxley (1993). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel”, p.158, Ivan R. Dee

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• I read some gossip thing saying, because I looked really uncomfortable in a paparazzi photo or something, they're like, 'He should get used to it. That's the price to pay if you're getting $12m a movie'. If I'm getting paid $12m a movie I'd walk around naked. That's all nonsense. I don't know who makes that stuff up. Even the price for the first one was nonsense.

  Robert Pattinson

  Gossip, Naked, Pay

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• Probably my English teacher because she got me into writing instead of just answering the question. I used to hand in homework with 20 pages of nonsense and she'd still mark it. She was a really amazing teacher.

  Robert Pattinson

  Life, Teacher, Writing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I mean come on. Do you know how easy it is to be famous these days? Do you have any idea? The web has made it plausible to have your very own platform to stand and spew nonsense from on an hourly basis. There's an old saying: when everyone is special, no one will be. These days, everybody thinks they're special, so no one really does anything to be special anymore.

  Corey Taylor

  Mean, Memorable, Thinking

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• A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Writing

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.189, University of Georgia Press

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• Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Photographer, Academic

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• It would be nonsense to say that it was not in the interests of a stone to be kicked along the road...A stone has no interests because it cannot suffer. The capacity for suffering and enjoyment is, however, not only necessary, but also sufficient for us to say that a being has interests - at an absolute minimum, an interest in not suffering. A mouse, for example, does have an interest in not being kicked along the road because it will suffer if it is.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Suffering, Stones

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• Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one ... So long as one sees killing as wrong there is no need to waste time with the deterrent argument, since it would be nonsense to try to prevent a theoretical evil in the future by perpetrating an actual one in the present.

  Auberon Waugh

  Long, Evil, Trying

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• It is however always important to remember that the ability to see things in their correct perspective may be, and often is, divorced from the ability to reason correctly and vice versa. That is why a man may be a very good theorist and yet talk absolute nonsense.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Men, Often Is, Perspective

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.76, Routledge

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• It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their truths. It is often complained that demagogues can be more plausible in putting forward economic nonsense from the platform than the honest men who try to show what is wrong with it.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Philosophy, Men, Errors

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.14, Crown Business

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• All voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.

  Michele Bachmann

  Hoaxes, Climate Change, Voodoo

  "Enviros Take Aim at Michele Bachmann (R-Crazytown)" by Kate Sheppard, www.motherjones.com. April 15, 2010.

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• We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it; a definition by the method of measuring a quantity is the one sure way of avoiding talking nonsense.

  Hermann Bondi

  Talking, Definitions, Way

  Hermann Bondi (1980). “Relativity and Common Sense: A New Approach to Einstein”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot be ignored or rejected, because it is bound up with modern technique; it is essential alike to prosperity in peace and to victory in war. That is, perhaps from an intellectual point of view, the most hopeful feature of our age, and the one which makes it most likely that we shall escape complete submersion in some new or old superstition.

  Bertrand Russell

  Powerful, Spring, War

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• There is no systematic corruption in FIFA. That is nonsense. We are financially clean and clear.

  Sepp Blatter

  Fifa, Systematic, Corruption

  "Sepp Blatter attacks English 'arrogance' after World Cup 2018 failure" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2010.

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• Why can't you harness Might so that it works for Right? I know it sounds nonsense, but, I mean, you can't just say there is no such thing. The Might is there, in the bad half of people, and you can't neglect it. You can't cut it out but you might be able to direct it, if you see what I mean, so that it was useful instead of bad.

  T. H. White

  Mean, Cutting, People

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.218, Penguin

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• It’s dead obvious that creationism isn’t science, or even bad science. It’s nonsense. But I’ve long stated it’s also bad religion, because it doesn’t just take faith, it also takes a phenomenal disregard of reality.

  Phil Plait

  Reality, Long, Disregard

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• For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Thinking, People, Important

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• SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

  Eric Butterworth

  Self, Sin, Self Inflicted

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• [T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day ... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiring, Yesterday, New Day

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1939). “The letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson. 4. 1848 - 1855”

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• The big lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal in a cold war than logic and reason.

  Joost Meerloo

  Lying, War, Emotional

  Dr. Joost A. M. Meerloo (2015). “The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing”, p.117, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Given the nonsense that is turned out daily by the Holocaust industry, the wonder is that there are so few skeptics.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Holocaust, Wonder, Given

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• Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.

  Epictetus

  Confidence, Creative, Requirements

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• Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Hard Work, Men, Light

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• Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone with a one or two-act opera without all that pompous nonsense - that was a happy reform.

  Giuseppe Verdi

  Mistake, Writing, Two

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