#comment

The statements of four witnesses of unquestioned integrity, traveling with me that day, attest that such comments were never made and confirm that it simply did not happen. ↗

— Paul Crouch

#comments #confirm #day #did #four

We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare. ↗

— Charles Dance

#commentaries #dogs #five #goats #had

I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#also #believe #comment #freedom of speech #i

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now? ↗

— Douglas Adams

#humor #science-fiction #social-commentary #thumb #towel

In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively. ↗

— James Schuyler

#apt #author #because #comment #consider

Primarily I'm a social commentator rather than someone who's out to get the belly laugh. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#commentator #get #i #laugh #out

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#commentary #humor #less #more #reflect

Music is always a commentary on society. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#commentary #music #society

What interests me, personally, is work which in some way, speaks the truth to power…I don’t think we speak the truth to power for power’s ear, but for the ear and the imagination of future generations, who would seek to live in a world free from the malign and self-serving influence of those who wield it. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#political-commentary #politics #posterity #power #resistance

Democracy is the worship of jackals by jackasses. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#democracy