Today our (Society of Jesus) prime educational objective must be to form men (and women) for others; men (and women) who will… — Pedro Arrupe Copy Share Image
The number who actually consented to the Constitution of the United States, at the first, was very small. Considered as the act… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Voting, the be all and end all of modern democratic politicians, has become a farce, if indeed it was ever anything else.… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
So on the Tuesday night deadline, while Abu Qatada was appealing to European Court judges, the Home Secretary, who thought the deadline… — Yvette Cooper Copy Share Image
For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I often need a limited space. It's like having a house to roam around in and reinvent and have things to happen… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel… — Henry James Sr Copy Share Image
“Surely you know that whatever the play, the curtain always falls at the end.” — Bandi Copy Share Image
People don't write about kids; you have to give them a lot of freedom, and that causes anarchy and that causes farce. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to… — Horace Copy Share Image
I actually had a chance to be in Delta Farce, but I couldn't do it because I read the script. — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
He had a certain air of being a handsome man-which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man-which… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film. — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a… — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
