Cruel Quote by Molly Ivins Download Open image “Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel.” — Molly Ivins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cruel Quite Satire Weapon
Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless,… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only… — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded. — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous,… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm uncomfortable with the word satire. In the U.K., there's quite a bit of sledgehammer weight to that word, which is the antithesis of… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Preemptive war is what Israel did in '67 with Arab armies on its borders. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The idols of one's adolescence tend to endure - you never forget how you worshipped them. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
To mistake Midland for the volk heartland is the West Texas equivalent of assuming that Greenwich, Connecticut, is Levittown. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Even for southerners, Arkansans are amazingly friendly and extend hospitality to all strangers with astonishing openness. You couldn't find a pretension in that state… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
the pyramids were built for pharaohs on the happy theory that they could take their stuff with them. Versailles was built for kings on… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: “Look out! They're… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it. — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
Cancer is a cruel killer. It creeps up on us when we aren't expecting it. But cake is not cancer. A doughnut does not… — Katie Hopkins Copy Share Image
I mean, taking photographs is a very nasty thing to do. It's very cruel. — Antony Armstrong-Jones Copy Share Image
Football is cruel at times; it's difficult. When things go well, you're very good, and when they go badly, well, it's awful. — David de Gea Copy Share Image
I know I'm being judged, and anyone who works in the public eye will get some negativity at some point. It can be tough… — Deborra-Lee Furness Copy Share Image
Short of the dishonest, the illegal, and the cruel, there's only one thing my son could do that would really disappoint me: not liking… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“He who makes fun of a short and fat man’s weight is much less cruel than he who makes fun of his height.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Some selfish people rise because some kind people haven't learned the art of saying no to them.” — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
“The Baudelaire orphans hung on to one another, and wept and wept while the adults argued endlessly behind them. Finally-as, I'm sorry to say,… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
Often I think bullying - especially in its adult, verbal forms - is the sort of thing you don't realize till the end of… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
