Cabaret Quotes – Wit and Social Critique

"Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less about satisfying the demands of their discipline than the demands of good showmanship."

Neil Postman

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."

Oscar Wilde

"All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances"

William Shakespeare

"My professional career has been one long decline—from musician to lawyer and then to politician."

Lothar de Maizière

"Everything is changing. Today, people take comedians seriously and view politicians as figures of fun."

Will Rogers

"It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"It is the opposition’s job to strip the government of its makeup while the show is still going on."

Jacques Chirac

"Peace is only got by peaceful methods. To fight the establishment with their own weapons is no good because they always win and they’ve been winning for thousands of years. They know how to play the game 'violence'. What they don’t know how to handle is peaceful humour"

John Lennon

"I've had cocaine, but I don't like it. The Beatles had lots of it in their day, but it's a dumb drug, because you have to have another one 20 minutes later. Your whole concentration goes on getting the next fix. Really, I find caffeine is easier to deal with. … A little mushroom or peyote is not beyond my scope, you know, maybe twice a year or something. You don't hear about it anymore, but people are still visiting the cosmos. We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD. That's what people forget. … They invented LSD to control people and what they did was give us freedom. Sometimes it works in mysterious ways its wonders to perform."

John Lennon

"The biggest joke. The idea of installing Mr. Lauterbach as health minister is the biggest joke since Caligula appointed his horse as consul. The claim that he is an experienced doctor is completely unfounded, and the further claim that he is a trained epidemiologist is equally false. Mr. Lauterbach is not accepted by any serious scientist as an expert or anything of the sort.
With 50 years of medical experience as a health policy maker for the CSU, I am certainly qualified to judge who could meet the minimum requirements here. God save us from Mr. Lauterbach."

Prof. Wolfgang Pförringer

"Musicians are stupid, lazy and greedy"

Frank Zappa

"Those who have become accustomed to the absurd will find their way well in our time."

Eugène Ionesco

"Today's political class in Germany is characterized by an excess of careerism and self-importance, and by an excessive desire to appear on talk shows."

Helmut Schmidt

"Our profession is like that of actors. Without approval from outside, we wither away."

Helmut Schmidt

"I have also developed acting skills over the course of my life, and sometimes with little knowledge, I still put on quite a show."

Helmut Schmidt

"Actors and politicians have much in common…We want to play leading roles, we cultivate the art of deception, and we have a strong human charisma… (coughs)"

Victor Dornberger

"Actors and politicians have much in common… We want to play leading roles, we cultivate the art of deception, and we have a strong human charisma… (coughs)"

Bjarne Mädel

"Monuments have never been built to critics, but they have often been built to the criticised."

Glenn Wesley Turner