Tom Tomorrow Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Politics, like advertising, is about people selling you things you didn't really want or need.”
-- Tom Tomorrow

#People #Needs #Want
“To keep doing this job [draw political cartoons] week after week, I think you have to want to change the world, while understanding that you can't. You have to hold both of those contradictory ideas simultaneously.”
-- Tom Tomorrow

#Jobs #Thinking #Ideas
“I don't think being a cynic is necessarily a negative thing. It's a matter of seeing the world with clear and open eyes.”
-- Tom Tomorrow

#Eye #Thinking #Negative
“Our basic civil liberties are in jeopardy, but we're going to be spending our time as a society arguing about whether or not schoolchildren should be forced to pay tribute to imaginary invisible beings who live in magical kingdoms in outer space some”
-- Tom Tomorrow

#Space #Liberty #Kingdoms
“My cartoons appear in newspapers, which are full of words, but there's something about having it in this little box that confounds people's expectations.”
-- Tom Tomorrow

#People #Expectations #Cartoon
“My biggest influence growing up was Mad magazine, which is a very text-heavy form of visual satire. I didnâ€™t grow up wanting to draw donkeys and elephants with the names of politicians written across them.”
-- Tom Tomorrow

#Growing Up #Names #Elephants
“I don't think that what I'm doing [political cartooning] is necessarily left versus right. What I'm addressing is top versus bottom. If I'm not spending a lot of time making fun of the more extreme elements of the Green Party, it's because what I do is to critique power.”
-- Tom Tomorrow

#Fun #Party #Thinking
“Good satire is about attacking the powerful, and that tends to be more the purview of the left. Maybe there's something about the conservative mindset that confuses mean-spirited name-calling and insults with actual humor.”
-- Tom Tomorrow

#Powerful #Mean #Names

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