#commentary

Under democracy one party always devotes it's chief energies to prove that the other party is unfit to rule-- and both commonly succeed, and are right. the United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent.It's history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#politics-of-the-united-states #intelligence

Or was he merely a mollycoddled favorite, enjoying capriciously prejudiced love? Schenback was inclined to believe the latter. Inborn in nearly every artist’s nature is a voluptuous, treacherous tendency to accept the injustice if it creates beauty and to grant sympathy and homage to aristocratic preferences. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#society #beauty

America isn't a country; it's a marketplace. The more you sell, the more at home you'll feel. ↗

— Iimani David

#home

My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry. ↗

— Nikos Kazantzakis

#cry #entire #soul #work

I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is. ↗

— Murray Walker

#box #commentary #hammer #heart #here

Everyone in life has a purpose, even if it's to serve as a bad example ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#life

We didn't even think about it, you know? I used to collect laser discs, and you'd have some college professor analyzing It's a Wonderful Life or Citizen Kane, and now it is pretty funny - the idea of commentary for a silly kid's movie, you know? ↗

— Dana Carvey

#analyzing #citizen #citizen kane #collect #college

You know, I don't think I've ever listened to someone's commentary. Ever. ↗

— David Fincher

#ever #i #know #listened #someone

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons? ↗

— Anthony Bourdain

#american culture #commentary #culture #sharper #simpsons

The BBC provides the commentary on our lives, the soundtrack of the nation. It is one of the most powerful unifying forces in the United Kingdom today. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#commentary #forces #kingdom #lives #most