Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize. — Tom Lehrer 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
“We are sometimes hurt mostly or only not by what happened or is happening to us but by being felt sorry for.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“My great-great grandfather and I were the best of friends, although we never met” — Raji Singh Copy Share Image
“After we deal and heal...NOT A A SHRED OF EVIDENCE EXISTS THAT LIFE IS SERIOUS …Jan Marshall” — Jan Marshall Copy Share Image
“Ah! good Sir! no Whores before Dinner, I beseech you." [ Love's Last Shift ]” — Colley Cibber Copy Share Image
“The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are …… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that. — John Cusack Copy Share Image
Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
“But by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wrung and extorted from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The audiences like to think that satire is doing something. But, in fact, it is mostly to leave themselves satisfied. Satisfied rather… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
“terrorism n. Violence for political purposes or the politically motivated threat of violence which, either intentionally or unintentionally, challenges the state's monopoly… — Leslie Starr O'Hara Copy Share Image
“I imagine sarcasm to be a backward slanting font, each word leaning away from rather than into the next. These days it… — George Takei Copy Share Image
I think that there's a real appetite for opinion-driven satire, not just generic making jokes about what's in the news but actually… — Nish Kumar Copy Share Image
When I wake up, I'll read something and I'll feel angry. And then I'll calm down a little bit. I'll think about… — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
“It's not Americans I find annoying; it's Americanism: a social disease of the postindustrial world that must inevitably infect each of the… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
I just think everyone knows you go on those [political satire] shows if you're a politician to, "humanize yourself" - to show,… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
“Eric, you need to look at the whole picture," the PM said. "You look at the jobless as a huge pile of… — Mark Cantrell Copy Share Image
“The chairs - turned towards one another in groups of twos and threes - seemed like the seats of ghosts in close… — Baroness Emmuska Orczy Copy Share Image
Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“St John had been sitting in the back garden twizzling a pencil, on the end of which a russet deposit was impaled,… — St. John Morris Copy Share Image
Satire, whilst envy and ill-humor sway The mind of man, must always make her way; Nor to a bosom, with discretion fraught,… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
“But here's the biggest head-scratcher of all: Not only are atheists destroying our country, they're completely deluding themselves. There's simply no way… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“Now that Mohtarma Veena Malik has embraced Burqa, she should be sent to negotiate with Maulana Burqa, dare I say.” — @SaroorIjaz Copy Share Image
Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't… — Hedda Hopper Copy Share Image
“Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire… The greater the genius, the keener the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who should be… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Her protestations were drowned out by the sound of Gordon Honeycomb barfing up aftershock into the kitchenette sink.” — St. John Morris Copy Share Image
“Obama's plan for "change": Let's do everything Bush did, only with more suck! Because it just didn't suck badly enough the first… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
“A huge meringue with polio who drives everywhere in a beautifully restored Hillman Imp.” — St. John Morris Copy Share Image
“The human population would probably be way less than a thousand, if ejaculation were not usually accompanied by an orgasm.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
“Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
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