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John Pilger has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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In these surreal days, there is one truth. Nothing justified the killing of innocent people in America last week and nothing justifies…
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Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that…
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Not all the Americans in Iraq are those who torture and murder, or course they're not, I don't know how many are…
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We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government.
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If those who support aggressive war had seen a fraction of what I've seen, if they'd watched children fry to death from…
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In Western Australia, minerals are being dug up from Aboriginal land and shipped to China for a profit of a billion dollars…
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In the sublime days before 11 September 2001, when the powerful were routinely attacking and terrorising the weak, and those dying were…
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This is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there. All this talk about…
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I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.
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More terrorists are given training and sanctuary in the United States than anywhere on earth. They include mass murderers, torturers, former and…
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Two increasing themes which appear to dominate our listening, reading and watching lives are propaganda and 'national security', or manufactured war.
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When the invasion began, the British public was called upon to 'support' troops sent illegally and undemocratically to kill people with whom…
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It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.
— Joey Skaggs
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I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.
— Pauley Perrette
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The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense…
— Renata Adler
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Some playwrights are obvious influences on younger writers. Arthur Miller (realistic, politically engaged dramas) and Christopher Durang (satirical dark comedies) are examples.…
— Unknown Author
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I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again I don't…
— Kenneth Koch
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My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs.…
— Joey Skaggs
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The style, often found difficult in the earlier books, is just as individual but more perfectly modulated to experience, and the dialogue…
— Geoffrey Dutton
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It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.
— Rube Goldberg
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Good Humor is the best shield against the darts of satirical raillery
— Charles Simmons
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Waiting for the Electricity is a wildly original and ambitious debut, a novel that tackles cultural clashes with satirical hilarity. I haven't…
— Jill Ciment
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When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. My prayer was to be immortalized by unintelligent gibbons on a…
— Oscar Wilde
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