Famous quotes containing the words killing, joke and/or released:
“Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of ... revolutionary avant-gardism.”
—Terry Eagleton (b. 1943)
“Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said of it, the French Revolution was the greatest step forward by mankind since the coming of Christ. It was unfinished, I agree, but still it was sublime. It released the untapped springs of society; it softened hearts, appeased, tranquilized, enlightened, and set flowing through the world the tides of civilization. It was good. The French Revolution was the anointing of humanity.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)