Social Commentary Quotes

"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." "I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive." "When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front-row seat" "Racism is not dead, but it is on life support kept alive by politicians, race hustlers, and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as racists" "As usual there is a great woman behind every idiot" "In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile"