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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.”

Victim Absurd Survivor Oppressors Pimp Arresting

Author:Gloria Steinem

“No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one age and boasts of the next. Dante is worshipped at that grave to which he was hurried by persecution. Milton, in his own day, was "Mr. Milton, the blind adder, that spit his venom on the king's person"; and soon after, "the mighty orb of song." These absurd transitions from hatred to apotheosis, this recognition just at the moment when it becomes a mockery, saddens all intellectual history.”

Source: Literature and life, lects

“Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd manner, and are the victims at all times of the nearest object. There is even no philosopher who is a philosopher at all times. Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession, that is, with every truth a certain falsehood.”

Men Needs Children Reason Philosophy Certain Knowledge Objects Perception Victim Philosopher Foolish Absurd All Time Acquire Falsehood Succession Partiality

Book:The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The wild, the absurd, the seemingly crazy: this kind of thinking is where new ideas come from ... The people capable of such playful thought carry forward their childish qualities and childhood dreams, applying them in areas where most of us get stuck, victims of our adult seriousness. Staying a child isn't easy.”

People Thinking Kind Children Ideas Dream Easy Quality Crazy Childhood Capable Adults Areas Victim Stuck Absurd Staying New Ideas Seriousness Childhood Dreams

Author:Nicholas Negroponte

“I see the way I look upon organized religion, I was a victim of that of mythology, and of cruelty, and all the absurd stuff.”

Way Looks Stuff Victim Mythology Absurd Cruelty Organized Look Up Organized Religion

Author:Malachy McCourt

“For years now, the fake European 'left' is trying to portray European citizens as victims of the US imperialism. It is even trying to make the world feel sorry for those European workers who do not get a fair deal from their governments! It is thoroughly absurd.”

World Feels Trying Years Government Left Deals Citizens Fairs Victim Workers Sorry Absurd Fake Imperialism

Author:Andre Vltchek

“She wasn't a victim of fate, she was running her own risks, pushing beyond her own limits, experiencing things which, one day, in the silence of her heart, in the tedium of old age, she would remember almost with nostalgia - however absurd that might seem.”

Heart Seems Might Running Age Remember Silence Fate Risk One Day Limits Victim Nostalgia Absurd Old Age Pushing Tedium Experiencing Things

Author:Paulo Coelho

“If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether one is a racist or a victim, one comes to feel the absurdity of life....Racism generated from whites is first of all absurd. Racism creates absurdity among blacks as a defense mechanism.”

“As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.”

Looks Light Hurt Victim Wounds Absurd

Book:Religion for Atheists: A non-believer's guide to the uses of religion

Source: Religion for Atheists: A non-believer's guide to the uses of religion