Social Commentary Quotes

"Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway" "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use" "It’s a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them" "I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it." "People always say 'You do racial comedy.' And I don't, exactly. I do cultural comedy. Because race and culture are two different things" "For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbours and laugh at them in our turn" "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife" "You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named Bush, Dick, and Colon" "I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member" "Arrogance is the cause of most first-world problems" "There is a cultural movement willing to blame everyone except the people who actually live in these communities." "It's just a group of people who care, Roy. Not unlike folks at a hip-hop concert whose hands are not in the air." "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." "If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near forty" "The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people." "Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich." "Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive." "This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country." "Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion." "People with opinions just go around bothering each other."