Satire Quotes

192 Satire quotes by 147 unique authors

Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule. — Saul Alinsky
Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the need for the… — Joe Randazzo
Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the need for the… — Joe Randazzo
Social satire has been around since people have been around. — David Walliams
The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it. — Adam McKay
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies. — Madame Roland
The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic… — Anthony Trollope
The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little,… — Laurence Housman
THE DYING GAUL is a Hollywood satire. But Hollywood is not the real subject matter here. My play uses that world of high-rolling big money… — Craig Lucas
The real issues I don't think most people touch. The Clinton jokes are all about Monica Lewinsky and all that stuff and not about the… — Tom Lehrer
Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. — Mary Wortley Montagu
Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized. — Gore Vidal
One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire. — Franklin P. Adams
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues. — Jonathan Swift
It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate. — Herb Caen
Satire is not a social dynamite. But it is a social indicator: it shows that new men are knocking at the door. — Jacob Bronowski
I believe that pop culture is just, like, so ready for 'Watchmen.' We tried so hard to ride that wave between satire and reality, and… — Zack Snyder
When a man says he sees nothing in a book, he very often means that he does not see himself in it: which, if it… — Augustus William Hare
Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy. — Stephen Colbert
Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art. — Philip Roth
When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters. — Kevin Kline
If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a… — Carl Hiaasen

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