Against Quote by Maajid Nawaz

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

— Anita Brookner

There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs…

— Isaac Hayes

There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs...…

— Isaac Hayes

“anthropologist Victor Turner’s point about satire more generally: it is essentially conservative in effect, because even as it skewers a particular social folly or…

— D. Brent Laytham

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.

— Molly Ivins

Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.

— John Dryden

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

— Dawn Powell

I do not read many periodicals, and I have little or no contact with progressive Christians, so I don't really know what goes on…

— Rene Girard

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

Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed.…

— Carl Hiaasen

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral…

— E. L. Doctorow

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