In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.
Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament.
It's absolutely absurd to even consider voting on Sunday alcohol sales. I am opposed to alcohol period. It doesn't do anybody any good in the long run. It's a dangerous drug.
Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother, according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible.
Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.
Obviously Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive.
The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization.
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.
Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.
The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory.
Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.
I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.
The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering.
How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.
I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports!
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
I realized at one point that David and I had not made a record together in almost 26 years and I thought that that was absurd because, first of all it had gone so fast, I didn't really realize, neither did David, that it had been that long.
Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds?
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much.
Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.
The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
I like that feeling of discombobulation that comes in creating an absurd world that doesn't make sense. 'Monty Python' does a good job of it; 'Bugs Bunny,' too.
The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in an absurd kind of theater.