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Humor, together with irony,forms a safeguard against idolatry. by Krister Stendahl

Humor, together with irony,forms a safeguard against idolatry.

Krister Stendahl
irony form together

The irony or humor of my pieces is never really calculated, but they somehow always end up that way. Humor, especially when dealing with matters of extreme gravity, has a way of toppling set ideas and opening up new modes of interpretation. Furthermore, adding humor tends to shift the power balance.

Larissa Sansour
irony balance

Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves.

Laini Taylor
irony quality humanity

I know the universe has a sense of irony, and sometimes you get reminded just how sadistic that can be.

Laurell K. Hamilton
sadistic irony sometimes

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Lewis Mumford
irony ironic intelligence
The irony of loneliness is that everybody shares it from time to... by Lil B

The irony of loneliness is that everybody shares it from time to time.

Lil B
irony loneliness share
...because really, sometimes the irony gods just get drunk. by Libba Bray

...because really, sometimes the irony gods just get drunk.

Libba Bray
irony drunk sometimes
There's a certain amount of what I wear that I wear for irony. by Lily Allen

There's a certain amount of what I wear that I wear for irony.

Lily Allen
amount irony certain
I am a connoisseur of fine irony. 'Tis a bit like fine wine, but... by Lynn Kurland

I am a connoisseur of fine irony. 'Tis a bit like fine wine, but it has a better bite.

Lynn Kurland
irony fine wine

labels can be fun! Some people are like, "As a card-carrying bear, where I also have a little bit of fairy in me..." People have fun collaging these; there's a fun people have with their identifications. The irony of them can be lost if you're just wholeheartedly anti-identitarian.

Maggie Nelson
irony fun people

There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence.

Malcolm Muggeridge
irony serious spirit

It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.

Mardy Grothe
irony pleasure pain
Hollywood is a place of great irony at all times. by Mark Canton

Hollywood is a place of great irony at all times.

Mark Canton
irony all-time hollywood
I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for... by Marjane Satrapi

I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods.

Marjane Satrapi
irony sarcasm bad-mood
It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war. by Mark Lawrence

It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war.

Mark Lawrence
irony men war

When it's hardest to pray are usually the times I need to pray the hardest. Not sure if that's irony or common sense.

Mark Hart
irony common-sense needs

I wonder if Bettie Page original gay cult had something to do with the ironies inherent in her image, as well as her innate fabulousness as an image.

Mary Harron
irony pages gay
The irony is I stopped going to church a few weeks later. by Martin Luther

The irony is I stopped going to church a few weeks later.

Martin Luther
going-to-church irony church
The irony is that science has served only to show how small human... by Masanobu Fukuoka

The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is.

Masanobu Fukuoka
irony humans shows

Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a constant state of it.

Maureen Johnson
irony kind looks
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