Faith Salie Quotes

You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

You can't suppress the things that make us human. It's pointless to try.

If you examine any aspect of the human condition long enough, you really do have to start laughing at it. Because the business of being human is kind of ridiculous.

Harold could no longer pass a stranger without acknowledging the truth that everyone was the same, and also unique; and that this was the dilemma of being human.

When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.

Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

I'm totally human.

As a matter of fact we both are [being offensive]; and the only difference between us is that I am trying to be, and you can't help it.

I don't want to say that we are the world in that we are not distinct from each other. I want to say that the humanity that is our foundation is common, but my culture, my beliefs, my values, what makes me sing and what makes me happy and the language I speak in and the relationships I have in the world are distinctive.

Basically, I'm an emotional man and a human being.

I'm just a real person, not a caricature.

How am I different than anyone else? I'm a human being, and I have my faults, too.

I enjoyed your article, but I preferred my own.

Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.

Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of us also seems to regard himself as existing on a detached plane of observation, exempt (save in moments of avid crisis) from the strange whims of humanity en masse.

I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

There are no normal people, there are just different kinds of weird, all of it is human and all humanity is better than everything inhuman. So I urge you to keep expressing yourself as honestly as you can, and know that the backpedals and second-guesses really aren't necessary - they don't hurt but they're wasting your time - because when you are truly human, as we all are, and when that is your honest message to anyone, you are beyond reproach, there is no way to screw it up.

We all belong to the nasty stinking little human race, & of course it is not nice for God's beloved vermin to scoff at each other... Oh, we are a nasty little lot-& to think there are people who would like to save us & continue us. It won't happen if I have any influence.

The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.

You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?

I've never been interested in being relevant.

Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were.

One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.

It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to s different species.