Benefits Quote by Gary Shteyngart

Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.

— Anita Brookner

Satire is an abuse of wit. It corrects few evils.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel.

— Molly Ivins

Satire also allows you to make fun of every different aspect. It allows you to make fun of both sides. It allows you to…

— Neill Blomkamp

I think satire is most effective when you love the thing you're satirizing rather than... have a vendetta against it.

— Mike Yaconelli

Satire is tragedy plus time.

— Lenny Bruce

Satire is meant to have teeth; satire is meant to be dangerous. But it also happens to be fun because subversion and telling the…

— John Cusack

Satire makes people learn something more than being lectured.

— Sarah Cooper

Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.

— Philip Roth

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 at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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…

— Steve Aylett