Absurd Quotes - Page 23

• But what difference does it make? ... When you're mixed, you see how absurd this business of race is.

  James McBride

  Race, Differences, Doe

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• To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.

  Eugene Ionesco

  World, Ridiculous, Painful

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• Being Christian without the Church doesn't make sense. That's why the great Paul VI, said that the most absurd dichotomy is loving Christ without the Church. To listen to Christ, but not the Church. To be with Christ, but stay at the margins of the Church. It's not possible. It's an absurd dichotomy.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Church, Said

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• The kingdom that Jesus preached and lived was all about a glorious, uproarious, absurd generosity.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Generosity, Kingdoms

  N. T. Wright (2004). “Luke for Everyone”, p.80, Westminster John Knox Press

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• When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right.

  J. C. Ryle

  Heart, Tongue, Persons

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• If you do not make it a matter of study, how you may successfully act in building up the kingdom of Christ, you are acting a very wicked and absurd part as a Christian.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Christian, Building Up, Acting

  Charles Grandison Finney (1835). “Lectures on revivals of religion”, p.159

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• Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Atheist, Law, Atheism

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.15, Library of Alexandria

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• That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression, and that no amount of 'bread and circuses' can compensate for the damage done-these are facts which are neither denied nor acknowledged but are met with an unbreakable conspiracy of silence-because to deny them would be too obviously absurd and to acknowledge them would condemn the central preoccupation of modern society as a crime against humanity.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Silence, Soul, Humanity

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• To talk of comparing the Bible with other "sacred books" so called, such as the Koran...or the book of Mormon, is positively absurd. You might as well compare the sun with a rushlight, or Skiddaw with a molehill, or St. Paul's with an Irish hovel, or the Portland vase with a garden pot, or the Kohinoor diamond with a bit of glass. God seems to have allowed the existence of these pretended revelations, in order to prove the immeasurable superiority of His own Word.

  J. C. Ryle

  Bible, Book, Garden

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• I never asserted such an absurd thing as that things arise without a cause.

  David Hume

  God, Causes, Arise

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• The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it's the logic of love.

  Mother Teresa

  Giving, Logic, Seems

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• It’s absolutely absurd to say you are a disciple of Jesus Christ yet not bear the fruit of Jesus Christ.

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Fruit, Bears

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• The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.

  Albert Camus

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.31, Vintage

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• Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.

  R. D. Laing

  Children, Men, Normal

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• Broken people say awful things and do incredibly absurd things.

  Kevin Costner

  People, Broken, Awful

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• Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Numbers, Giving, Negative

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• Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

  Neel Burton

  Healthy, Modern Life, Suspicion

  Neel Burton (2017). “Growing from Depression, second edition”, p.61, Acheron Press

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• Faeries are not fantasy, but a connection to reality. Faeries are irrational, poetic, absurd, and very, very wise. Faeries say there is nonsense in dogma, and sense in nonsense. Faeries express themselves with high seriousness and low humour. Faeries are resistant to all definitions.

  Brian Froud

  Wise, Reality, Connections

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• So the actual privilege is that you can then take time off - and if you don't, you're a fool. You're earning all this money to support children whom you then don't see, which is absurd.

  Paul Bettany

  Children, Support, Earning

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• Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.

  Peter Mullan

  Fiction, Life Is

  "‘NEDS’ Director Peter Mullan Almost Helmed ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’ (Until He Botched The Pitch)". Interview with Christopher Bell, www.indiewire.com. April 27, 2011.

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• I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid.

  Peter Mullan

  Kids, World

  "Peter Mullan: the swot who lost the plot". Interview with Cath Clarke, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2011.

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• The idea that ballet is a white art is absurd and shocking, and it’s gone on for too long. Nothing would make me happier than having a company that reflects society, to have dancers onstage that people can relate to.

  Benjamin Millepied

  Art, Ideas, White

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• Every professional golfer has a seperate coach for his drives, for approaches, for putting. In football we have one coach for 15 players. This is absurd.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Player

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• There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Knowledge, Fine, Spun

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• It is an absurd law [Section 295A of the Indian penal code] but also extremely dangerous because it gives fanatics, whether they are Hindus, Catholics or Muslims, a licence to be offended. It also allows people who are in dispute with you to make up false accusations of blasphemy.

  Richard Dawkins

  Law, People, Giving

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