Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'd always used humour as a weapon, as a protection. But being able to make people laugh is a way of not getting in too deep; it's a quick, transient fix.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.
And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
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