Satire Quotes

192 Satire quotes by 147 unique authors

Satire always benefits when evil and stupidity collide. — Gary Shteyngart
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There have been brilliant satires about the tax bureaucracy before, from the Beatles song â€˜The Taxmanâ€™ to the film â€˜Harryâ€™s War,â€™ but in some ways… — John Fund
Satire is focused bitterness. — Leo Rosten
The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire. — Yahoo Serious
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
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
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
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
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
The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible. — Salman Rushdie

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