humor

"Tolstoy, while sympathizing with the industrial workers, believed that they ought not to organize in trade unions and he opposed strenuously nearly every form of action advocated by working-class orga…"

"Hitler is a monster of wickedness, insatiable in his lust for blood and plunder. Not content with having all Europe under his heel, or else terrorised into various forms of abject submission, he must …"

"...strictly speaking, tone is the relative lightness and darkness due to the effect of light governed by atmosphere, and has nothing to do with the relative lightness and darkness or relative value wi…"

"2649. I will not touch her with a Pair of Tongs."

"I would beat him. You can be sure of that. If acting with energy is torturing, he'll be tortured."

"They are signaling to us with the neutron star equivalent of America Indian smoke signals!"

"For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought."

"In general however, those hit by the new virus are in a less serious condition than with SARS."

"We firmly believe that the withdrawal of occupation forces from Iraq will result in a speedy resolution to most of the problems that country is currently struggling with."

"3628. No Smoak without some Fire."

"A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view."

"I walked into a gunfight with a knife to kill you, and cut you so fast when your blood spilled it was still blue."

"And this doth show how a man may act foolishly, even when he doth believe that he hath a great caution; and surely it is borne in upon me afresh that none should trust over freely unto unproven matter…"

"Peter sighed. He turned the palms of his hands up as though to guess at rain. Anna knew him, theme and choreography. The sunshiny spring afternoon seeped through his fingers. He looked up at the witne…"

"When the South has trouble with its Negroes — when the Negroes refuse to remain in their "place" — it blames "outside agitators" and "Northern interference." When the nation has trouble with the North…"

"We're so saturated with propaganda every way you look that we don't notice it. But when it isn't there, you notice."

"As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues."

"It's a more ridiculing, divisive humor today, especially with the advent of political incorrectness, which is a license to be as ridiculing and awful about certain groups... There should be room for e…"

"The Woman Possessed with a Divinity, fragment 227"

"...and I haven't got to the bloody Japanese yet, with their poisoned stakes and booby traps and nasty habit of using prisoners for bayonet practice and no-surrender valour and fighting ability to matc…"