Quote by Tom Lehrer
Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize. – Tom Lehrer

Other quotes by Tom Lehrer

My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But thats just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun. – Tom Lehrer

Category:
Friendship
Read Quote

When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex. – Tom Lehrer

Category:
Food
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Peace
category

Peace should provide security. It should be durable. Im ready to go far in making painful concessions. But there is one thing I will never make any concessions on and thats the security of the Israeli citizens and the very existence of the state of Israel. The Palestinians are losing time. – Ariel Sharon

Category:
Peace

Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented. – Frank B. Kellogg

Category:
Peace

Why cant peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Lets pull together for peace. – Rita Mae Brown

Category:
Peace

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. – Peace Pilgrim

Category:
Peace

Random Quotes

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war. – James Madison

Category:
War

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic. – Russell Baker

Category:
Economics

I would never have done what Id done if Id considered my father as somebody I wanted to please. – Robert Mapplethorpe

Category:
dad

Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner, for it was not sent him of the Lord. Ecclesiasticus 15:9 – Bible

Category:
Praise