Quotes About Nonsense

If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense called 'behaviorist psychology.'

The railroads are not run for the benefit of the dear public. That cry is nonsense. They are built for men who invest their money and expect to get a fair percentage of the same.

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.

All philosophies if you ride them home are nonsense but some are greater nonsense than others.

It seems that nonsense is the only sensible recourse to remedy the nonsense of society's accepted normalcy

You can't do that, it makes too much sense.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.

Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

Don't waste any of your precious time or energy on negativity. There's no time for that nonsense.

Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and proof one has, to not be believed.

Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

We'll never survive!" "Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has.

Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quanitity of contradictions and nonsense it poures down the throats of the gaping multitude, and the jargon and mysticism it offers to their wonder and credulity.

Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, when honour and affection fail.

Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe.

Tellingly, Ralf has revealed himself as an Internet sceptic. One suspects he thinks the World Wide Web has made things too easy for people, certainly too easy to 'pollute' the world with the meaningless and the inconsequential. 'I am not a fan of the Internet, I think it's overrated. Intelligent information is still intelligent information and an overflow of nonsense does not really help. In Germany it's called Datenmüll: data rubbish.