“Stories can educate, elevate, comfort, and afflict those who are too comfortable. They can create community. They can also drive people apart, justify unspeakable crimes, and destroy the most basic concepts of civil society. You” — Jonathan Shapiro Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what… — Jonathan Shapiro Copy Share Image
Primarily I'm a social commentator rather than someone who's out to get the belly laugh. — Jonathan Shapiro Copy Share Image
It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for… — Jonathan Shapiro Copy Share Image
I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of… — Jonathan Shapiro Copy Share Image
Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor. — Jonathan Shapiro Copy Share Image
Mandela once phoned me out of the blue while he was still president, and at first he played with me a bit. — Jonathan Shapiro Copy Share Image
I try not to change my political point of view from paper to paper. — Jonathan Shapiro Copy Share Image
We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an… — Jonathan Shapiro Copy Share Image
I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them. — Jonathan Shapiro Copy Share Image
On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published. — Jonathan Shapiro Copy Share Image
