"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?"
- Jane Austen
About this Quote
This quote by Jane Austen speaks with the concept that life is a cycle of exchange. We live our lives to make sport for our neighbors, or to amuse them, and in turn, they laugh at us. This quote recommends that life is a video game, and that we ought to take pleasure in entertaining others and being amused by them. It also suggests that we ought to not take ourselves too seriously, which we should be able to laugh at ourselves and our next-door neighbors. Life is a cycle of exchange, and we must be able to enjoy it and find humor in it. We must be able to laugh at ourselves and our neighbors, and take happiness in amusing them and being captivated by them.
"It's a blast to watch. It's a lot more interesting live than it is on record. I mean, it really is a theatrical event. It's a sporting event! Cause you never know what's gonna happen"
"Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent"
