"Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony."
-Lionel Trilling
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"We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.“
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"Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process."
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-Steven Pinker
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