Categories All Quotes Quote from E.L. Doctorow Post author By Beautiful Quotes Post date August 12, 2022 No Comments on Quote from E.L. Doctorow Satire’s nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth. Tags bias, E.L. Doctorowbalance, fairness, ridicule,, satire, truth
Categories Edmund Burke Liberty On Empire Quote from Edmund Burke, On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters Post author By Beautiful Quotes Post date June 9, 2022 No Comments on Quote from Edmund Burke, On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.” (1794)] Tags and Reform: Speeches and Letters, and Reform: Speeches and Lettersarrogance, Edmund Burke, judgment,, knowledge,, liberty,, omniscience, On Empire, pomposity, preface-to-brissot-s-address, presumption, ridicule,, truth
Categories Voltaire Quote from Voltaire Post author By Beautiful Quotes Post date March 18, 2022 No Comments on Quote from Voltaire I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.”, May 16, 1767) Tags humor,, prayers, religion,, ridicule,, satire, social-justice, social-life, Voltaireenmity