Farce Quotes

“As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.' William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes trial was a tragedy. The creationists and intelligent design theorists are a farce.”

“A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.”

“Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.”

“Ladies and gentlemen, it is time for us to change the mindset which has tended to create ad hoc solutions for the political madness and social farce. In fact, our age of tragedy which has been represented by the so-called “Marxists” in the Sinhalese community and “liberalists” in Tamil community since the 70s to the late 90s, has been replaced by the age of farce.”

“One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values are what ought to be. I would say that all traditional philosophies up to and including Marxism have tried to derive the 'ought' from the 'is.' My point of view is that this is impossible, this is a farce.”

“A farce or comedy is best played”

“Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.”

“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”

“Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End.”

“There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.”