A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief. (John Dos Passos)

A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.

John Dos Passos

Related topics

express flesh man order possible relief satirist savage society ugly creeps

Related quotes

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. View quote
Henry Miller
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time. View quote
Igor Stravinsky
Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man or order of men. View quote
Adam Smith
Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. View quote
Pearl S. Buck