Tom Tomorrow famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Politics, like advertising, is about people selling you things you didn't really want or need.
-- Tom Tomorrow

#People #Needs #Want
To keep doing this job [draw political cartoons] week after week, I think you have to want to change the world, while understanding that you can't. You have to hold both of those contradictory ideas simultaneously.
-- Tom Tomorrow

#Jobs #Thinking #Ideas
I don't think being a cynic is necessarily a negative thing. It's a matter of seeing the world with clear and open eyes.
-- Tom Tomorrow

#Eye #Thinking #Negative
Our basic civil liberties are in jeopardy, but we're going to be spending our time as a society arguing about whether or not schoolchildren should be forced to pay tribute to imaginary invisible beings who live in magical kingdoms in outer space some
-- Tom Tomorrow

#Space #Liberty #Kingdoms
My cartoons appear in newspapers, which are full of words, but there's something about having it in this little box that confounds people's expectations.
-- Tom Tomorrow

#People #Expectations #Cartoon
My biggest influence growing up was Mad magazine, which is a very text-heavy form of visual satire. I didnâ€™t grow up wanting to draw donkeys and elephants with the names of politicians written across them.
-- Tom Tomorrow

#Growing Up #Names #Elephants
I don't think that what I'm doing [political cartooning] is necessarily left versus right. What I'm addressing is top versus bottom. If I'm not spending a lot of time making fun of the more extreme elements of the Green Party, it's because what I do is to critique power.
-- Tom Tomorrow

#Fun #Party #Thinking
Good satire is about attacking the powerful, and that tends to be more the purview of the left. Maybe there's something about the conservative mindset that confuses mean-spirited name-calling and insults with actual humor.
-- Tom Tomorrow

#Powerful #Mean #Names

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.
The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.
Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
What we need now for quickening is not so much money and wisdom as the spirit of supplication. Pray for yourself until the new life is infused. When that new life comes, it will lead you to pray for others.
For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown
Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.
One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.
I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.
Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.

Tom Tomorrow famous quotes

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