Tom Tomorrow Quotes

• 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

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• Politics, like advertising, is about people selling you things you didn't really want or need.

  Tom Tomorrow

  People, Needs, Want

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 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

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• 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

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 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

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• My biggest influence growing up was Mad magazine, which is a very text-heavy form of visual satire. I didn’t grow up wanting to draw donkeys and elephants with the names of politicians written across them.

  Tom Tomorrow

  Growing Up, Names, Elephants

  "Dan Perkins". Interview with Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. January 2001.

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• 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

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• 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

  Interview with Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2001.

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