
“Comedy is in act superior to tragedy and humourous reasoning superior to grandiloquent reasoning.”
Attributed by Karl Marx in Comments on the North American Events http://hiaw.org/defcon6/works/1862/10/12.html, Die Presse (12 October 1862)
Comments on the North American Events (1862)
“Comedy is in act superior to tragedy and humourous reasoning superior to grandiloquent reasoning.”
Attributed by Karl Marx in Comments on the North American Events http://hiaw.org/defcon6/works/1862/10/12.html, Die Presse (12 October 1862)
“Humour is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.”
As quoted in The Harper Book of Quotations (1993) by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 223
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Publications, The Shah's Story (1980), On world leaders and statesmen
“The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.”
“No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.”
Source: De l'esprit or, Essays on the Mind, and Its Several Faculties (1758), p. 21
Spectacles & Predicaments (1979)
How to Help the Left Half of the Bell Curve http://www.isteve.com/How_to_Help_the_Left_Half_of_the_Bell_Curve.htm, VDARE.com, July to September 2000
Source: The Masters and the Path (1925), Ch. 2