Social Critic Quotes

“So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.”

“Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.”

“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”

“The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.”

“Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.”

“War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.”

“Put two things together which have never been put together before, and some schmuck will buy it.”

“I don't really identify with America, I don't really feel like an American or part of the American experience, and I don't really feel like a member of the human race, to tell you the truth. I know I am, but I really don't. All the definitions are there, but I don't really feel a part of it. I think I have found a detached point of view, an ideal emotional detachment from the American experience and culture and the human experience and culture and human choices.”

“Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.”

“The phrase surgical strike might be more acceptable if it were common practice to perform surgery with high explosives.”

“For an entertainer, part of the thing you do is just style. And the coke did help me get into great runs of pure form.”

“Just think, right now as you read this, some guy somewhere is gettin' ready to hang himself.”

“Leftovers make you feel good twice. First, when you put it away, you feel thrifty and intelligent: 'I'm saving food!' Then a month later when blue hair is growing out of the ham, and you throw it away, you feel really intelligent: 'I'm saving my life!'”

“There was about a two-year period at the end of the '60s, when I realized I was in the wrong place and entertaining the wrong people with the wrong material and that I was not being true to myself. I went through a metamorphosis into something more authentic for me, a more authentic stage voice and writing voice.”

“I’m a high-tech low-life. A cutting edge, state-of-the-art bi-coastal multi-tasker and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond!”

“Cancer research is a growth industry.”

“Test of Metal: Will of Iron, Nerves of Steel, Heart of Gold, Balls of Brass.”

“Bullshit is truly the American soundtrack.”

“Environmentalists changed the word jungle to rain forest, because no one would give them money to save a jungle. Same with swamps and wetlands.”

“Nothing you see on the Internet is mine unless it comes from one of my albums, books, HBO specials, or appeared on my website.”

“I love it in a movie when they throw a guy off a cliff. I love it even when it's not a movie. No, especially when it's not a movie.”

“Writing is really wonderful art. A lot of this is discovery. A lot of things are lying around waiting to be discovered and that's our job as writers is to just notice them and bring them to life.”

“When you start in the childhood period, when you begin to form a comic sense, it was the radio comedians - from the last days of radio and the first days of television. And Spike Jones. And the Marx Brothers. They represented anarchy. They took things that were nice and decent and proper, and they tore them to shreds. That attracted me.”

“I'm kinda like herpes, I just keep coming back.”

“Is there another word for synonym?”