"All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire."

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"All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire."

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"NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Satire, Russia, Denial, Irony, Humor

"Hurry, your imaginary heaven is calling you up, my dear holier-than-thou religious nuts."

Fakeer Ishavardas, Indian Spiritual Leader

Satire, Religion, Critique, Faith

"And his computer's spell-check always forces him to capitalize the word "Internet". Come on; World War Two earned it's capitalization. The Internet just sucks human beings away from reality."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Satire, Technology, Isolation, Reality, Critique

"Happiness is a good business these days, more you talk crap about happiness the large number of crowd you will gather."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

Satire, Happiness, Business, Irony, Truth

"Blessed are the meek, for to them we shall say 'attaboy'."

Christopher Moore, American Novelist

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"It is difficult not to write satire."

Juvenal, Roman Poet

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"Logically enough, the office and the nunnery have been singularly popular in the imaginations of pornographers. We should not be surprised to learn that the erotic novels of the early modern period were overwhelmingly focused on debauchery and flagellation amongst clergy in vespers and chapels, just as contemporary Internet pornography is inordinately concerned with fellatios and sodomies performed by office workers against a backdrop of work stations and computer equipment."

Alain de Botton, English Writer

Satire, Religion, Office, Society, Irony

"Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country."

George Byron, Scottish Poet

Satire, Chivalry, Country, Right, Spain

"Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Satire, Weather, Irony, Speech, Fear

"Punctuality is the thief of time."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices."

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"Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people."

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"No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit."

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"The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own."

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"Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people."

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"Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction."

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"NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi."

"Hurry, your imaginary heaven is calling you up, my dear holier-than-thou religious nuts."

"And his computer's spell-check always forces him to capitalize the word "Internet". Come on; World War Two earned it's capitalization. The Internet just sucks human beings away from reality."

"Happiness is a good business these days, more you talk crap about happiness the large number of crowd you will gather."

"Blessed are the meek, for to them we shall say 'attaboy'."

"It is difficult not to write satire."

"Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country."

"Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous."

"Punctuality is the thief of time."

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"An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences."

"Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices."

"Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people."

"No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit."

"The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own."

"Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people."

"Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category."

"The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass."

"For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live."

"Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction."