Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.
Friedrich NietzscheTag: health irony absolution agnosticism absolute distrust pathology evasion objection
The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.
Orhan PamukTag: compassion beauty affection mystery color irony attention interest detail
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. -Andrew Young, author, civil rights activist, US congressman, mayor, and UN ambassador (b. 1932)
Andrew YoungTag: injustice society justice economics irony corporations
What would a racist call werewolves? Wargs? She kind of liked that one, but suspected that racist bastards didn't read Tolkien.
Patricia BriggsTag: humor tolkien irony racism werewolves
Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a constant state of it.
Maureen JohnsonTag: irony
What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?
Neil GaimanThat was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.
Nick HornbyTag: life growing-up people mothers irony
Salcombe Hardy groaned: "How long, O Lord, how long shall we have to listen to all this tripe about commercial arsenic? Murderers learn it now at their mother's knee.
Dorothy L. SayersTag: murder poison irony arsenic
Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humour and serious play. It is also a rhetorical strategy and a political method, one I would like to see more honoured within socialist-feminism.
Donna J. HarawayTag: feminism epistemology ontology irony linguistics politcs
Jesus "...It sounds like these guys would be filed under Assholes Who do Evil Shit in My Name.
Kevin HearneTag: irony good-humor understatements
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