“The tragedy of all political action is that some problems have no solution; none of the alternatives are intellectually consistent or morally uncompromising; and whatever decision is taken will harm somebody.” ProblemActionPoliticalDecisionTakenPoliticianSolutionsTragedyHarmAlternativesConsistentUncompromisingPolitical Action Book:Intellectuals in politics: three biographical essays Source: Intellectuals in politics: three biographical essays
“A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.” EndsFunTakenComedyDramaThirdsTragedyCriticalBitterVarietyIronyScrapMirth Author:George Bernard Shaw
“Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to make the whole scene a scene of woe, are an essential ingredient in tragedy and a chief source of the tragic emotions, and especially of pity. But the proportions of this ingredient, and the direction taken by tragic pity, will naturally vary greatly.” WholeSufferingEmotionTakenSourceHeroSceneEssentialsTragedyAddWidePityChiefsProportionTragicIngredientsWoeExceptionalCalamityVaryExtending Author:A. C. Bradley