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The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, "I wish you hadn’t made every line funny. It’s so depressing."
Quentin Crisp— Ch. 24 (The Naked Civil Servant (1968))
The division created by the English educated scholars who separate the Vedas and the Upanishads from the Puranas and thus make a distinction between the Vedic dharma and the Puranic dharma is a mistake born of ignorance . The Puranas are accepted as an authority on the Hindu dharma because they explain the knowledge contained in the Veda and the Upanishads to the average man, comment upon it, discuss it at great length and endeavour to apply it to the commonplace details of life .
— Sri Aurobindo, in "Sri Aurobindo Writings in Bengali Translated into English".
But because we live in a liberal democracy and therefore have certain double standards to maintain, any criticism of Islam or of Muslims always draws the immediate accusation of Islamophobia, a dishonest word which seeks to portray legitimate comment as some kind of hate crime.
— Pat Condell, YouTube video (16 March 2007, from YouTube)
To be accused of ignoring my roots is pig ignorant. Collins's racist comment has focused my mind on the fight and I will beat him.
steve collins— Chris Eubank[3]
I am never going to make another comment about another capital city, I promise you, I promise you that.
robert doyle—
Il faut aimer n'importe qui, n'importe quoi, n'importe comment, pourvu qu'on aime.
Dumas, Alexandre, fils— We must love, no matter whom, no matter what, no matter how, provided only we do love.
— Les Idées de Madame Aubray (1867), Act I, sc. ii; translation from Louis Proal (trans. A. R. Allinson) Passion and Criminality (London: Imperial Press, 1905) p. 563.
Whether its [David] Berkowitz, whether its [Ted] Bundy, whether its Williams, Wayne Williams down in Atlanta or any of the others, or Charlie Manson—I don't comment about other cases for the simple fact is that I wasn't there.
john wayne gacy— YouTube video
When we love others, we naturally want to talk about them, we want to show them off, like emotional trophies. We invest them with a power to do to others what they do to us; a vain hope, as the lovers of others are rarely of much interest to us. But we listen in patience, as friends must, and as Isabel now did, refraining from comment, other than to encourage the release of the story and the attendant confession of human frailty and hope.
alexander mccall smith— Friends, Lovers, Chocolate, chapter 5
Having said that, I don't want to hug the tar baby of trying to comment on the program — the alleged program — the existence of which I can neither confirm nor deny.
tony snow— White House Press Briefing [1] (2006-05-16)
I must say the Linux community is a lot nicer than the Unix community. A negative comment on Unix would warrent death threats. With Linux, it is like stirring up a nest of butterflies.
kenneth thompson— "Ken Thompson clarifies matters", Linux Today. May 7, 1999. [8]
On étouffe les clameurs, mais comment se venger du silence?
alfred de vigny— Clamour can be stifled, but how avenge oneself on silence?
— Chap. 26, p. 433; translation by William Hazlitt from Cinq-Mars (1847) p. 344.
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.
t. h. (terence hanbury) white— The Godstone and the Blackymor (1959), p. 161
Great drama, drama that may reach the alchemical level, must have dimension and its relevance will take care of itself. Writing about AIDS rather than the cocktail set, or possibly the fairy kingdom, will not guarantee importance. . . . The old comment that all periods of time are at an equal distance from eternity says much, and pondering on it will lead to alchemical theatre while relevance becomes old hat.
Robertson Davies— Alchemy in the Theatre (1994)
..I have never managed to grasp what exactly 'pataphysics' consisted of; but in short what I have always seen in it is a desire to disconnect philosophy from the discipline of logic, and to admit incoherence as a legitimate component of it. (comment on visiting frequently the Collège de 'Pataphysique', fh)
jean dubuffet— Batons rompus, Jean Dubuffet, Les Editions de Minuit, Paris 1986, p. 19
My job is to investigate whether or not a crime is committed, can be proved and should be charged. I'm not going to comment on what to make beyond that. You know, it's not my jurisdiction, not my job, not my judgment.
patrick fitzgerald— Fitzgerald News Conference from nytimes.com (October 28, 2005)
What puzzles me most is your criticism that he showed 'no sense of engagement'. I haven't met the expression before, and feel bound to comment on its totalitarian tang. Engagement not with the truth as the speaker apprehends it, but with the alleged opinion of the majority of listeners.
e. m. forster— Letter 400, to John Morris, 12 January 1953
Ce sont les hommes qui n'aiment pas les femmes qui s'intéressent à la toilette des femmes. Et les hommes qui aiment les femmes ne voient pas seulement comment elles sont habillées.
anatole france— Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.Histoire contemporaine: L'anneau d'améthyste (1899)
They will explain themselves as all poems should do without any comment.
john keats— Letter to George Keats (1818).
(on the current state of satire) Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now--to quote myself at my most pretentious--is a nimiety of scurrility with a concomitant exiguity of taste. For example, the freedom (hooray!) to say almost anything you want on television about society's problems has been co-opted (alas!) by the freedom to talk instead about flatulence, orgasms, genitalia, masturbation, etc., etc., and to replace real comment with pop-culture references and so-called "adult" language. Irreverence is easy--what's hard is wit.
tom lehrer— Rhino Records online chat, June 17th, 1997.
He was deeply impressed by the eloquence of the plaintiff, and after hearing his evidence he exclaimed, "I believe you are right!" The clerk of the court explained that he should make no such comment until he had heard the case for the defence. Having done so, Nasruddin cried out, "I believe you are right!" "But they can't both be right," expostulated the clerk. "I believe you are right," said the Mulla.
nasreddin— Ivor Lucas, A Road to Damascus (1997), ISBN 1860641520, p. 84
The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.
camille paglia— p. 29 (Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990))
The meaning of the First Amendment has been, and will be, shaped by each American generation: by judges, political leaders, citizens. There will always be authorities who try to make their own lives more comfortable by suppressing critical comment.… But I am convinced that the fundamental American commitment to free speech, disturbing speech, is no longer in doubt.
— Lewis, Anthony (2007). Freedom for the Thought That We Hate; A Biography of the First Amendment. Basic Books. p. xv. ISBN 0465039170.
Falwell is an important decision for free speech in this country. It continues the Court's well-established tradition of providing a high level of protection for those who comment on public affairs, and makes it extremely difficult for politicians and public figures to recover against those who comment on their actions. It also provides protection for the long-established practice of political satire.
— Lively, Donald E.; Russell L. Weaver (2006). Contemporary Supreme Court Cases: Landmark Decisions Since Roe v. Wade. Greenwood. p. 81. ISBN 9780313335143.
In Sri Lanka, a Muslim government minister also condemned the execution for offending Muslims around the start of Eid al-Adha. "As a Muslim, I feel the execution could have been avoided," said Hussein Bhaila, who declined to comment on the judgment against the former dictator. **Muslim government minster, [11]
— Deniz Baykal leader of the Republican People's Party [12]
Science is not a discipline that claims to establish certainty ... Science simply cannot (by its legitimate methods) adjudicate the issue of God's possible superintendence of nature. We neither affirm nor deny it; we simply can't comment on it as scientists.
— Stephen Jay Gould, "Impeaching a Self-Appointed Judge" (review of Darwin on Trial by Phillip E. Johnson) Scientific American (July 1992)
No comment.
— Who: Edward Abbey
— Note: His response as to whether he had any last words. (The epitaph on his memorial stone was "No Comment".)
Je suis tourmenté par de mauvaises idées. En quel genre? Ça se guérit, les idées. - comment? - En y succombant.
honoré de balzac— "I am tormented by temptations."
"What kind? There is a cure for temptation."
"What?"
"Yielding to it."Part II
