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1 " Here is a tragicomic reality of all the regimes: People work hard to feed their thief politicians, their thief kings and thief queens or their thief presidents! And therefore the tragicomic reality of all the times is this: There can exist no thieves without the support of people! "
― Mehmet Murat ildan
2 " In this sense every serious choice has a tragicomic dimension. For it is impossible to be a human being without choosing, and it is impossible to choose without value denials, and it is impossible to deny values without guilt. That is a very simple though, but it forms the core definition of guilt: an awareness of significant value loss for which I know myself to be responsible. Guilt is the self-knowing of moral loss. "
― Thomas C. Oden , Guilt Free
3 " It is a tragicomic fact that our proper upbringing has become an ally of the secret police. (...) The " Tell the truth!" imperative drummed into us so automatically that we feel ashamed of lying even to a secret policeman. "
4 " The blues is relevant today because when we look down through the corridors of time, the black American interpretation of tragicomic hope in the face of dehumanizing hate and oppression will be seen as the only kind of hope that has any kind of maturity in a world of overwhelming barbarity and bestiality. That barbarity is found not just in the form of terrorism but in the form of the emptiness of our lives - in terms of the wasted human potential that we see around the world. In this sense, the blues is a great democratic contribution of black people to world history. "
― Cornel West , Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
5 " It is a tragicomic fact that our proper upbringing has become an ally of the secret police. We do not know how to lie. "
― Milan Kundera , The Unbearable Lightness of Being
