“There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous.” PeopleBelieveCountryStatesSeemsBeliefInterestUnitedUnited StatesDangerousIncrediblesAbsurdOutsiders Author:Lawrence Wright
“Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.” IdeasCountryFormDiesDyingDangerousWillingConceptsKillingAbsurdWilling To Die Author:Mick Jagger
“The notion that Americans can be protected from "terror" by giving up the Bill of Rights is absurd. Democrats are complicit in this absurd notion. Many were intimidated into voting for police state legislation, because they lacked the intestinal fortitude to call police state legislation by its own name. The legislation that has been passed during the Bush regime is far more dangerous to Americans than Muslim terrorists.” GivingHas BeensStatesNamesRightsDangerousGiving UpPoliceBillsDemocratNotionTerrorTerroristAbsurdVotingRegimesProtectedLegislationFortitudeIntimidatedBill Of RightsPolice StateMuslim TerroristsIntestinal Fortitude Author:Paul Craig Roberts
“If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.” IfsGovernmentCoursesDangerousArmsCriminalsAbsurdMake SenseFirearmsAggressors Author:David Mamet
“The speaker tentatively reaches out with that feeling and realizes that it's kind of absurd, or at least a dangerous consolation, which is what I think is discovered as that longish sentence at the end of the poem comes to its conclusion. But here I am interpreting my own poem, which is kind of like making out with one's own high school yearbook photo.” ThinkingKindEndsFeelingsSchoolRealizingMy OwnDangerousHigh SchoolSentencesAbsurdConclusionReach OutSpeakersConsolationHere I AmInterpretingYearbookHigh School Yearbook Author:Matthew Zapruder
“Donald Trump has gone from making absurd comments to being downright dangerous with his bombastic rhetoric.” GoneDangerousTrumpAbsurdCommentRhetoricBombastic Author:Lindsey Graham