#commentary

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope. ↗

— Aberjhani

#election-year-politics #hate-crimes #hatred #humanity #hypocrisy

I'm interested in social commentary. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#i #interested #social

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons? ↗

— Anthony Bourdain

#american culture #commentary #culture #sharper #simpsons

I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#drawings #film #i #magazine #my own

It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race. ↗

— Oscar Robertson

#country #i #our #race #real

Music is always a commentary on society. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#commentary #music #society

Or was he merely a mollycoddled favorite, enjoying capriciously prejudiced love? Schenback was inclined to believe the latter. Inborn in nearly every artist’s nature is a voluptuous, treacherous tendency to accept the injustice if it creates beauty and to grant sympathy and homage to aristocratic preferences. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#society #beauty

Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ↗

— George Macaulay Trevelyan

#history #nonfiction #reading #social-commentary #education

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked. ↗

— Jane Austen

#commentary #humor #snark #humor

It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#racial-politics #social-commentary #political-philosophy