Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
“Never take life too seriously, you're never getting out of it alive.” — John Chaplin Copy Share Image
“A satirist is never certain whether he/she will be acclaimed or punished.” — Edgar Johnson Copy Share Image
Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides… — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Chances are that there are white people who brag about being the first to move out of a suburb that has been… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine. — Jerry Zucker Copy Share Image
“Yeah. Of course I can do simple math. I graduated high school, ya know.” “What an accomplishment. No one has ever done… — S.A. Stovall Copy Share Image
Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire. — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
“Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“... the sea pirates who had the most to do with the creation of the new government owned human slaves. They used… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“They who suspect a Mephistophiles, or sneering, satirical devil, under all, have not learned the secret of true humor, which sympathizes with… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The connection between vice and meanness is a fit subject for satire, but when the satire is a fact, it cuts with… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Olga was better, in the sun, where he could see every pore in her skin. Get closer. Feel her next to him.… — Graham Spaid Copy Share Image
“Some women do not masturbate for pleasure; they masturbate to make a political statement: to remind us that women do not really… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Facebook this week announced that it's experimenting with a tag that will mark sites such as the Onion, Clickhole and Empire News… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...his knees were held together by the skin-tight trousers, which consequently narrowed the aperture through which great quantities of malodorous, rancid dreck… — St. John Morris Copy Share Image
“...the very greatest satire, I came to think -- the kind that lives forever -- ultimately grew out of a debunking attitude… — Terry Castle Copy Share Image
“That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“What gets me most about these people, Daddy, isn't how ignorant they are, or how much they drink. It's the way they… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Jason Mashak’s SALTY AS A LIP is grounded in a voice patiently bridging the “steeples and ‘scrapers” of an inquisitive mind. The… — James Ragan Copy Share Image
“anthropologist Victor Turner’s point about satire more generally: it is essentially conservative in effect, because even as it skewers a particular social… — D. Brent Laytham Copy Share Image
“My great-great grandfather and I were best of friends, although we never met. Fire and shipwreck orphan us – 140 years apart.… — Raji Singh Copy Share Image
“[Uh-oh, it's bath time for Calvin.] MOM, who sits in the living room, has turned toward the door. Very likely she is… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
![“[Uh-oh, it's bath time for Calvin.] MOM, who sits in the living room, has turned toward the door. Very likely she is screaming the following words at the top of her lungs: CALVIN! Quiet down and quit that splashing! I don't want to have to clean the whole bathroom! CALVIN: Ha! I pulled the plug!…” quote by Bill Watterson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4e0/bill-watterson-728_childhood_uh-oh-it-s-bath-time-for-calvin-mom-who_1561979.jpg)
