Laughter
"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter." - Mark Twain
"Laughter liberates not only from external censorship, but first of all from the great interior censor; it liberates from… fear of the sacred, of prohibitions, of the past, of power… Seriousness had an official tone… It oppressed, frightened, bound, lied and wore the mask of hypocrisy… Thus, distrust of the serious tone and confidence in the trust of laughter [has] a spontaneous, elemental character." - Mikhail Bakhtin, quoted in THomas Szasz's The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary, p. xii, pub. A.D. 1990
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