#commentary

To me, the best zombie movies aren’t the splatter fests of gore and violence with goofy characters and tongue in cheek antics. Good zombie movies show us how messed up we are, they make us question our station in society… and our society’s station in the world. They show us gore and violence and all that cool stuff too… but there’s always an undercurrent of social commentary and thoughtfulness. ↗

— Robert Kirkman

#gore #introspective #social-commentary #society #violence

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

— Nikos Kazantzakis

#cry #entire #soul #work

…does not need Facebook, Twitter and Stumble Upon. She is a whole social media network all by herself. ↗

— Pandora Poikilos

#social-commentary #twitter

The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#doubles #drama #fact #in fact #narration

The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species. ↗

— Alan Lomax

#ballads #became #become #blues #british

...all these things were part of the business of dreams. He had learned not to laugh at the advertisements offering to teach writing, cartooning, engineering, to add inches to the biceps and to develop the bust ↗

— Nathanael West

#capitalism #commercialization #conformity #disillusionment #self-perception

A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it. ↗

— Aaron Sorkin

#social-commentary #inspirational

Jazz is democracy in music. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#patriotism #social-commentary #music

http://travelsofadam.com/2012/11/trav... Here are some quotes from my book and there are plenty more... ↗

— D.C. Gallin

#humour #inspirational #social-commentary #art

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope. ↗

— Aberjhani

#election-year-politics #hate-crimes #hatred #humanity #hypocrisy