Quotes with farce

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  • John Mortimer Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
    John Mortimer
    English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author (1923 - 2009)
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  • François Rabelais I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
    François Rabelais
    French writer (1483 - 1553)
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  • Arthur Rimbaud Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
    Arthur Rimbaud
    French poet (1854 - 1891)
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  • Abbie Hoffman My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
    Source: Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (1980)
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • James Thurber The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Steven Weinberg The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
    Steven Weinberg
    American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics (1933 - 2021)
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  • Mark Twain There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bono You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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