social commentary quotes

There’s nothing like white trash at the White House.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

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

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

Come on, you can’t name a truck after a chick.

I get that racism exists, but it’s not a catalyst for my content. I don’t need to talk about race to have material. My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with ‚topics‘ – race, white versus black – you’re not separating from the pack. You’re doing what everybody else is doing.

Say there’s a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter – for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that’s saying is that he’s living a fantasy life of rebellion.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

I find it amusing that I’m on the Internet now, because I’ve criticized it, but mainly I’ve criticized it on the basis of, ‚What are you going to do with it?‘

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Music is always a commentary on society.

Woman was God’s second mistake.

I’m not one of these guys who sits around saying, ‚Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that’s why he’s doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He’s just had a bad childhood and that’s why he’s eating people.‘ Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

Everybody is entertained to death.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.

I would like to be the chronicler of something that I think is going down the drain very swiftly, and that is small-town, middle-class southern life.