Social Correction Quotes

We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.

Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.

On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away.

Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name.

But like Mrs. Ford, I think that the more people realize what a difficult and what an insidious disease it is, the sooner people will start to correct that situation.

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

On the other hand, the pleasure caused by laughter, even on the stage, is not an unadulterated enjoyment; it is not a pleasure that is exclusively esthetic or altogether disinterested. It always implies a secret or unconscious intent, if not of each one of us, at all events of society as a whole. In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate, and consequently to correct our neighbour, if not in his will, at least in his deed.

You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.

It's nice to have the power of Twitter to correct things that were incorrect.

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.