Javad Alizadeh Quotes

Bad times for the Republic are great times for satire.

Laughter is the best way to get over something or get closer to something. It's one of the things I respect most about Amy Schumer. She's found a way to get us closer to ourselves and see the ugly side of humanity, but not in a way that's pointing a finger or that's angry. She does it in a way that makes us see the absurdity and laugh at it.

The whole point of real comedy is that you can say something that is true, and by being funny, you can make it tolerable for people, and hopefully they'll laugh at you, too.

Knowing comedy is knowing human nature.

What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?

Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.

I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

I want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words 'diversity' and 'tolerance' won't be in their vocabulary. They won't need them - they'll live it.

We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.

Comedy is such a personal thing. Everybody can cry at the same thing, but it's a lot harder to get everyone to laugh at the same thing.

The comedy on '2 Broke Girls' always comes from a place of love - it's never mean. We're a comedy, and we often go right to the edge. It doesn't bother me. I've encountered this all my life. I've been made fun of all my life.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

Humor's a weapon if you want to make it one.

Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.

If we can't laugh at ourselves and the human condition, we're going to be mean.

I think comedy tells a lot; you can tell what people think by what they laugh at.

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.

Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't.

I used to love comic books, and I love American comedy, and neither are afraid to tackle big themes.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.