Satire Quotes
192 Satire quotes by 147 unique authors
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Satire always benefits when evil and stupidity collide.
— Gary Shteyngart
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For years, reality has been nipping at the heels of satire. Now, it's finally caught up. I don't need to make this stuff up.
— Paul Krassner
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It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would…
— Griffin Dunne
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Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the…
— Angela Carter
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How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and then watching to see how much joking around…
— Peter Sloterdijk
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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And…
— Carl Hiaasen
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Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it…
— Molly Ivins
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Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out a…
— Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
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Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion'. Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
— Salman Rushdie
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A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires and tragedies, dramas…
— Robert McKee
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There have been brilliant satires about the tax bureaucracy before, from the Beatles song ‘The Taxman’ to the film ‘Harry’s War,’ but in some ways…
— John Fund
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Satire is focused bitterness.
— Leo Rosten
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The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.
— Yahoo Serious
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The biggest problem I had with starring in Scrubs were the black doctors. I just had to keep telling myself this show was satire.
— Zach Braff
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When television producers say it is the parents obligation to keep children away from the tube, they reach the self satire point of warning that…
— Gregg Easterbrook
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SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Satire works in a bunch of specific ways, like a very precisely-geared bomb. It's a bit like something that looks harmless, and you swallow it,…
— Steve Aylett
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The 'Rise, Rebel, Resist' video is a reflection of the outrage the American people are feeling at the absurd hypocrisy, and overwhelming nonsense and balderdash…
— Otep Shamaya
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The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
— Salman Rushdie
Who Wrote These Satire Quotes
147 authors contributed a total of 192 Satire Quotes, led by these top contributors: