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• 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.

  Gloria Steinem

  Pimp, Survivor, Victim

  Entrevista con Max Miller, bigthink.com. 28 de octubre de 2010.

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• La idea de legisladores hereditarios es tan inconsistente como la de jueces hereditarios, o jurados hereditarios; y tan absurda como un matemático hereditario, o un sabio hereditario; y tan ridícula como un poeta laureado hereditario.

  Thomas Paine

  Sabios, Hombres, Ideas

  Los Derechos del Hombre pt. 1 (1791)

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• 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.

  Albert Camus

  Hands, Essentials, Logic

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.50, Vintage

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• Un adulador nunca parece absurdo: El adulador siempre cree en su palabra.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Humorous, Flattery, Seems

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). "El almanaque del pobre Richard", p.84, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Can an idea a notion as abstract as Relativism produce by itself the effects alleged? cause all the harm, destroy all the lives and reputations? I am as far as anyone can be from denying the power of ideas in history, but the suggestion that a philosophy (as Relativism is often called) has perverted millions and debased daily life is on the face of it absurd. No idea working alone has ever demoralized society, and there have been plenty of ideas simpler and more exciting than Relativism.

  Jacques Barzun

  Philosophy, Ideas, Working Alone

  Jacques Barzun (1989). "La cultura que merecemos", p.89, Wesleyan University Press.

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• A person is not a democrat thanks to his ignorance of literature and the arts, nor an elitist because he or she has cultivated them. The possession of knowledge makes for unjust power over others only if used for that very purpose: a physician or lawyer or clergyman can exploit or humiliate others, or he can be a humanitarian and a benefactor. In any case, it is absurd to conjure up behind anybody who exploits his educated status the existence of an "elite" scheming to oppress the rest of us.

  Jacques Barzun

  Art, Ignorance, Physicians

  "Exeunt the Humanities". Essay by Jacques Barzun (1980) published in his book "The Culture We Deserve" (p. 117), 1989.

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• It is unjust and absurd of those advancing in years, to expect of the young that confidence should come all and only on their side: the human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Heart, Years, Age

  Maria Edgeworth (1855). “Tales and Novels: The absentee (concluded) Madame de Fleury. Emilie de Coulanges. The modern Griselda”, p.62

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• La poesía es un mal medio para la filosofía. Todo en el poema filosófico tiene que satisfacer requisitos irreconciliables: por ejemplo, la última exigencia que deberíamos hacer a la filosofía (que sea interesante) es la primera que hacemos a un poema; el poeta filosófico tiene un aire elevado y metódico, pero desamparado y absurdo, mientras trabaja en su tanque volador, su máquina de coser que también toca el piano.

  Randall Jarrell

  Filosofía, Filosófica, Aire

  "Poetry and the Age", de Randall Jarrell, Vintage paperback, (p. 127), 1955.

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• El nacionalsocialismo es lo que el marxismo podría haber sido si hubiera podido romper sus absurdos y artificiales lazos con un orden democrático.

  Adolf Hitler

  Orden, Lazos, Rotos

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• In particular, it is absurd to hope to banish envy of other people's possessions or fortunes, if only because the spirit of envy can lead to emulation and ambition and have positive consequences.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Ambition, People, Envy

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.74, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Hay extrañas flores de la razón a juego con cada error de los sentidos. Admirables jardines de creencias absurdas, presentimientos, obsesiones y frenesíes. Allí toman forma dioses desconocidos y siempre cambiantes.

  Luis Aragón

  Flower, Garden, Errors

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• I must confess that I and a few others are burdened with heavy responsibilities regarding the future of criticism. I am certainly, if not the inventor, then at least one of the first systematizers of an absurd critical practice that, as soon as it had peeked its beak out of the nest, flapping its new wet wings, took flight in the minds of the young, becoming a wild ox and sowing avant-garde literature with the mighty tomes of what might as well be called the abstract bear.

  Luis Aragón

  Responsibility, Practice, Wings

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• Suponer que el hombre sin lenguaje se enseñó a sí mismo a hablar, me parece tan absurdo como suponer que sin piernas pudo enseñarse a sí mismo a caminar. El lenguaje, por lo tanto, debe haber sido el don inmediato de Dios.

  Noah Webster

  Men, Would Be, Legs

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• Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one. What is most repellent in the System of Nature - after the recipe for making eels from flour - is the audacity with which it decides that there is no God, without even having tried the impossibility. If God did not exist, he would have to be invented." But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

  Barón de Holbach

  Order, Eels, Doubt

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• Nor, in truth, is it of little importance to prevent the suspicion of any difference having arisen between us from being handed down in any way to our posterity; for it is worse than absurd that parties should be found disagreeing on the very principles, after we have been compelled to make our departure from the world.

  Juan Calvino

  Party, Differences, Departure

  Letter to Philip Melanchthon, November 28, 1552.

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• All his leisure clothes were absurd - jokes, really - as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed.

  Edmund White

  Clothes, Leisure, Jokes

  Edmund White (2016). “A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm a good example of wanting to apologize only for my precise share of a problem--as I calculate it, of course--and I expect my husband Steve to apologize for his share, also as I calculate it. Since we're not always of one mind on the math, it can lead to the theater of the absurd.

  Harriet Lerner

  Husband, Math, Mind

  "¿Esperando una disculpa? Don't Hold Your Breath" por Harriet Lerner, www.huffingtonpost.com. 5 de enero de 2012.

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• From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other absurd opinions, and superstitious practices.

  Joseph Priestley

  Practice, Long, Soul

  Joseph Priestley (1782). “An History of the Corruption of Christianity”, p.442

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• If an art has for its function to represent manners and people, I do not see how it can avoid systematizing its sensibility to the extent of showing some figures much as Molière, for instance, did, as absurd or detestable.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Art, People, Manners

  Wyndham Lewis (1929). “The Diabolical Principle and The Dithyrambic Spectator”, p.38, Ardent Media

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• Hay que acabar con la tontería de que el presidente Obama es musulmán. Me levanto para defenderle de esta absurda acusación señalando que, obviamente, es ateo.

  Ann Coulter

  Ateo, Presidente, Tonterías

  "Obama no es musulmán". townhall.com. 1 de septiembre de 2010.

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• The idea of an isolated American painting , so popular in this country during the thirties, seems absurd to me, just as the idea of a purely American mathematics or physics would seem absurd... And in another sense, the problem doesn't exist at all; or, if it did, would solve itself: An American is an American and his painting would naturally be qualified by the fact, whether he wills or not. But the basic problems of contemporary painting are independent of any one country.

  Jackson Pollock

  Country, Independent, Ideas

  Jackson Pollock (1958). “Jackson Pollock, 1912-1956”

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• Lovemaking seems all too absurd when described.

  Dan Simmons

  Parece

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.2518, Spectra

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• The day will come, sooner or later, when people will wonder at the necessity of taking all this trouble to expose the folly of a system, so childish and absurd, and yet so often enforced at the point of a bayonet.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  People, Bayonets, Wonder

  Jean Baptiste Say, Clement Cornell Biddle (1851). “A treatise on political economy”, p.159

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• I endorse without reserve the much-abused sentiment of Gov. M'Duffie, that "slavery is the corner stone of our Republican edifice;" while I repudiate, as ridiculously absurd, that much-lauded but nowhere accredited dogma of Mr. Jefferson, that "all men are born equal.

  James Henry Hammond

  Men, Slavery, Stones

  James Henry Hammond (1866). “Selections from the Letters and Speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond: Of South Carolina”, p.126

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• El arte y el trabajo y el arte y la vida están muy conectados y toda mi vida ha sido absurda. No hay nada en mi vida que no haya sido extremo - salud personal, familia, situaciones económicas... absurdo es la palabra clave.

  Eva Hesse

  Art, Keys, Economic

  "Art since 1940, strategies of being". Book by Jonathan Fineberg, copyright Prentice Hall, Inc., 1995.

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