Also Quote by Neill Blomkamp

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 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 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 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 is used for political purposes all the time, but obviously there's a time and a place. I think in the current climate, it…

— George Michael

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 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

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 is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

— Jonathan Swift

I think satire is a luxury of literate middle-class people. People who are well fed and relatively secure in their beds can laugh at…

— Harold Ramis

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

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