Aim Quote by Molly Ivins

I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar.

— Molly Ivins

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

— Molly Ivins

When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar.

— Molly Ivins

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

— Molly Ivins

There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what Garrison Keillor…

— Molly Ivins

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 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

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

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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

Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do…

— Maajid Nawaz

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

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