Scott Westerfeld Quotes

Irony is always the best weapon against fascism.

Scott Westerfeld

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• I'm Australian! How much more alpha can you get?

  

  Sam Worthington
  • You
  • More
  • Alpha

• I am excited to run in the community where my wife and I work, where my daughters graduated and my son attends high school, where my family goes to synagogue, and where I have spent so much time working for and with the people of South Florida.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Facts

• If I could marry my motorcycle, I'd roll her right up to the altar.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Right
  • Marry
  • Motorcycle

• It's weird. I don't really have goals. I just try to make sure I'm enjoying what I'm doing. Once I start to get sick of it, the next thing becomes obvious.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Weird
  • Goals
  • Sick

• I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Want
  • Face
  • Decency

• One of the things performers worry about is who you follow. But if I can't top what I heard in the last hour. ... There wasn't one iota of humor! You guys are so serious.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Serious
  • Worry
  • Humor

• They afterwards took me to a dancing saloon where I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice- 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Best
  • Doing
  • Method

• I don't go to parties even when I'm invited. I've always been an 80-year-old woman inside. I remember going to my first school dance petrified. I just wanted to leave. Like, This is cool, but I'm ready to go home now.

  

  Zendaya
  • School
  • Home
  • Remember

• The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Purpose
  • Enemies
  • Criminal Law

• For this, to be sure, from the child's primer down to the last newspaper, every theater and every movie house, every advertising pillar and every billboard, must be pressed into the service of this one great mission, until the timorous prayer of our present parlor patriots: 'Lord, make us free!' is transformed in the brain of the smallest boy into the burning plea: 'Almighty God, bless our arms when the time comes; be just as thou hast always been; judge now whether we be deserving of freedom; Lord, bless our battle!"

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Freedom
  • Prayer
  • Judge

• This man (FreddieMercury) truly possessed the greatest voice in the history of rock. Journalists, culture experts and analysts have already made several hundred comments on this topic and nothing can be added here.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • History
  • Journalists
  • Possessed

• I'm a dumb-ass, and I poisoned myself for years. Now I understand things better.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Poisoned
  • Dumbass

• Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Revolution
  • Generation
  • Collectivity

• Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Up
  • Good
  • Power

• Ready when you are, Sergeant Pempbry.

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Ready
  • Sergeants

• Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Culture
  • Know
  • Irony

• Irony is always the best weapon against fascism.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Irony
  • Fascism