Social Commentary Quotes

"I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician." "In California they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows" "I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal" "Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime" "Public apathy is more powerful than public opinion. There’s more of it." "To sit home, read one’s favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men doing." "You know who wears sunglasses inside? Blind people and assholes." "There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a very violent culture." "I drink to make other people more interesting" "I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool." "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." "In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate" "There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you." "A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep" "I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately" "Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough." "You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption." "Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid." "Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion " "I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it."