“United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.” WorldTryingNationsUnitedAidsSupremeIronyUnited NationsPeacekeepers Author:Richard Holbrooke
“The next step will be for the colonists on Mars to throw off the hand of the United States. There will be this wonderful historical irony. When the people on Mars write a declaration of independence saying, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident...', the US will be rather pissed off.” PeopleWritingSelfStatesHandsNextUnitedStepsUnited StatesWonderfulIndependenceHistoricalIronyMarsEvidentDeclarationDeclaration Of IndependenceNext StepsPissed OffColonists Author:Eric Idle
“If anything qualifies as an irony of history it would be this: that Marx and Engels throughout the nineteenth century wrote about America the United States as the great country of the future, of freedom and equality and a good life for the working man, and a country of revolution and emancipation, and of Russia as the great country of despotism, backwardness, savagery and superstition.” IfsMenCountryStatesWould BeAmericaUnitedUnited StatesCenturyRevolutionRussiaIronyGood LifeSuperstitionsNineteenth CenturyDespotismEmancipationGreat CountrySavageryWorking ManEngelsFreedom And Equality Author:Christopher Hitchens
“People in the U.K. share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself. They have a sense of irony, which America doesn't have, seeing as it's being run by fundamentalists who take things literally.” PeopleStatesRunningAmericaUnitedUnited StatesSeeingShareIrony Author:Bill Hicks
“The irony of environmental opposition to the Keystone XL project is that stopping the pipeline to the U.S. will not stop production in the oil sands of Canada. Instead of coming to the United States, the oil will still be produced and shipped by rail or a pipeline similar to the Keystone XL to Canada's Pacific Coast.” StillsStatesUnitedUnited StatesProjectsEnvironmentalProductionsOilIronyCanadaSandOppositionStoppingCoastPacificRailPipelineKeystonesKeystone Pipeline Author:John Hoeven
“Americans don't understand irony? I am an intelligent person living in the United States. My entire existence is ironic.” PersonsStatesUnitedExistenceUnited StatesIntelligentIronyIronicIntelligent Person Author:Marc Maron