Effects Quote by Martin Amis

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction…

— Italo Calvino

This possibility to change reality, which exists in everyone, represents the real freedom of every human individual. He has an enormous possibility to change…

— Albert Hofmann

A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of…

— Stanley Kubrick

He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a…

— Shel Silverstein

[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others.

— Rebecca West

“The man who no longer expects miraculous changes either from a revolution or from an economic plan is not obliged to resign himself to…

— Raymond Aron

Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they…

— Niels Bohr

He who thinks all mankind is vile is a pessimist who mistakes his introspection for observation; he looks into his own heart and thinks…

— William George Jordan

He who is ashamed would like to force the world not to look at him, not to notice his exposure. He would like to…

— Erik Erikson

Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.

— Anonymous

What the intellectual craves above all else is to be taken seriously, to be treated as a decisive force in shaping history. He is…

— Eric Hoffer

The world is a sacred vessel that cannot be changed. He who changes it will destroy it. He who seizes it will lose it.

— Laozi