#cian

Now, as I understand it, the bards were feared. They were respected, but more than that they were feared. If you were just some magician, if you'd pissed off some witch, then what's she gonna do, she's gonna put a curse on you, and what's gonna happen? Your hens are gonna lay funny, your milk's gonna go sour, maybe one of your kids is gonna get a hare-lip or something like that — no big deal. You piss off a bard, and forget about putting a curse on you, he might put a satire on you. And if he was a skilful bard, he puts a satire on you, it destroys you in the eyes of your community, it shows you up as ridiculous, lame, pathetic, worthless, in the eyes of your community, in the eyes of your family, in the eyes of your children, in the eyes of yourself, and if it's a particularly good bard, and he's written a particularly good satire, then three hundred years after you're dead, people are still gonna be laughing, at what a twat you were. ↗

— Alan Moore

#artists-way #bard #irony #modernity-is-a-sickness #musicians

["The Devil in the Dark"] impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction then and now, that something weird, and even dangerous, need not be malevolent. That is a lesson that many of today's politicians have yet to learn. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#fear #politicians #politics #science-fiction #star-trek

Prolific irony - For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn't pronounce the word "nuclear. ↗

— T. Rafael Cimino

#americans #atomic-bomb #george-bush #nuclear #nuclear-weapons

It’s hard to hear over the racket of gunfire. Politicians want to talk about war, but the people want to talk about peace. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#gunfire #guns #peace #people #politicians

I would say exploit the stupid, because they’re expendable and loyal, but it’s a fact: politicians are not loyal. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#exploit #exploitation #fact #loyal #loyalty

You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#politicians

Just because you don’t have an arrest record doesn’t mean you’re not a criminal. As proof, note some of the cleanest rap sheets in America belong to politicians. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#arrested #criminals #politics #politicians

But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school. That's why they become politicians. ↗

— Anthony Horowitz

#politicians #thoughts #politicians

I ran over some dog poop on my drive home last night. But I didn’t feel bad, because I didn’t vote for that particular politician. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#politician #politics #remorse #politicians

I"d done more apologizing in the past week than a politician with a crack pipe and a sex addiction. ↗

— Kristin Walker

#politicians