#commentary

We're living in a funny world kid, a peculiar civilization. The police are playing crooks in it, and the crooks are doing police duty. The politicians are preachers, and the preachers are politicians. The tax collectors collect for themselves. The Bad People want us to have more dough, and the good people are fighting to keep it from us. It's not good for us, know what I mean? If we had all we wanted to eat, we'd eat too much. We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry. That's the way I understand it. That's about the size of some of the arguments I've heard. ↗

— Jim Thompson

#social-commentary #funny

I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#humor #picket-fence #social-commentary #humor

Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile. ↗

— Spider Robinson

#science-fiction #social-commentary #humor

I alternate between feeling sympathetic toward humanity and being a misanthrope. When I'm sympathetic, it usually means I haven't been around people in awhile. ↗

— John R. Lindensmith

#humor #misanthrope #social-commentary #humor

Just because all the rats are gone doesn't mean I trust the rattlesnake that got rid of them. ↗

— John Steiner

#social-commentary #humor

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

I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#had #i #love #love songs #made

I don't think it's blowing my own horn to say the show is not as good. There was chemistry there that took years and years to build and now that's gone. The commentary is lacking. ↗

— Jerry Lawler

#build #chemistry #commentary #gone #good

When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn't developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#advice #back #commentary #crowd #developed

I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience. ↗

— Jay Roach

#another #commentary #experience #filmmaker #films