One of the problems I see with these comics on television, particularly cable television, is, since you can say anything in terms of sex and scatological references and so on, therefore, you should do it. So they all limit themselves to these subjects and this vocabulary. My objection is that it is a lack of articulateness. Irreverence is easy, but what is hard is wit. Wit is what these comedians lack.
There are some whose only reason for inciting war is to use it as a means to exercise their tyranny over their subjects more easily. For in times of peace the authority of the assembly, the dignity of the magistrates, the force of the laws stand in the way to some extent of the ruler doing what he likes. But once war is declared then the whole business of state is subject to the will of a few. . . They demand as much money as they like. Why say more?
I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They're about whatever you want. I don't pick subjects. I just start.
Death is not my best subject.
No movie has ever been able to provide a catharsis for the Holocaust, and I suspect none will ever be able to provide one for 911. Such subjects overwhelm art.
The tax that is taken from the free non-Muslim subjects of a Muslim government whereby they ratify the compact that assures them protection, as though it were compensation for not being slain.
Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.
The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study that the two most important things in civilised life are Art and Science.
Painting is the subject of painting.
It may be desirable to explain, that by the word operation, we mean any process which alters the mutual relation of two or more things, be this relation of what kind it may. This is the most general definition, and would include all subjects in the universe.
The State, in short, subjects people, whereas Society associates them voluntarily.
That's what the Nazis did, isn't it? Treated those "others" they thought subhuman by making them lab subjects and so on. Even the Nazis didn't eat the objects of their derision.
The lecturer who is full of his subject is usually very slow in emptying himself.
I'm supposed to have a Ph. D. on the subject of women
About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
I have been insane on the subject of money-making all my life.
I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.
I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.
That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.
Sincerity is always subject to proof.