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

— Anita Brookner

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

It is difficult not to write satire.

— Juvenal

Satire makes people learn something more than being lectured.

— Sarah Cooper

Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.

— Philip Roth

A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that are not…

— Joseph Addison

Satire always benefits when evil and stupidity collide.

— Gary Shteyngart

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

Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.

— Garry Trudeau

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

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 is a lesson, parody is a game.

— Vladimir Nabokov