Complaints Quote by John Dos Passos

A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has…

— John Dos Passos

[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others.

— Rebecca West

The most successful satirist is that one who disturbs someones subconscious so as to make him think about something; otherwise his satire is akin…

— Mak_786

The most successful satirist is that one who shakes up and disturbs someones subconscious so as to make him think about something; otherwise his…

— Anonymous

What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power…

— Claud Cockburn

The satirist isn't just looking at things ironically but militantly - he wants to change them, and intends to have an effect on the…

— Martin Amis

Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held…

— David Low

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction…

— Italo Calvino

He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart…

— Alain de Botton

Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow…

— Graydon Carter

Satire has its limits. It is really up to the people to make the change. The satirist's role ends at the screen.

— Bassem Youssef