Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandon Marshall

I'm against discrimination in all forms.

Ambrose Bierce

DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.

Elizabeth I

Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.

Bryan Stevenson

We've all been acculturated into accepting the inevitability of wrongful convictions, unfair sentences, racial bias, and racial disparities and discrimination against the poor.

Emily Saliers

Discrimination is a bad bad bad thing.

George Orwell

Anyone who knows of a provable instance of colour discrimination ought always to expose it.

Gloria Steinem

why is the word 'qualified' applied only to those who have to be more so?

Jean-Francois Lyotard

What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination

Joseph Addison

A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that are not the proper objects of it.

Carroll O'Connor

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

Dario Fo

It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.

Angela Carter

Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

Isaac Watts

Satirists do expose their own ill nature.

Katherine Hough

This has a lot of satire in it.

Mark Lisanti

It's satire it's my own twisted sense of humor, The Wizard of Oz.

Gore Vidal

If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.

G. H. Hardy

There's a lot of satire in Mardi Gras. We also take shots at ourselves. We may be down but we're not out.

P. J. O'Rourke

Satire doesn't effect change.

C. S. Lewis

When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.

Cecelia Ahern

All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets.

Bette Davis

You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.

Bernadette Devlin

It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn't my business.

Bertrand Russell

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

Jim Moeller

I think we all stand on the shoulders of those who went before us in many ways, not only politically but also in our own communities.

Al Franken

At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.

Aimee Mann

I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.

Charles Kettering

You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.