Culture Quote by Paul F. Tompkins

You can still have comedy which is sensitive to the topic, where you're laughing at the right part of it, you're not mocking the…

— Rachel Parris

There's a fine line between participation and mockery.

— Scott Adams

I think a playful critique is good for all of us, and that's basically how I see satire functioning. But I'm not interested in…

— Jennifer Egan

I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something…

— Mark Leyner

Some intentionally injure others through mocking, sarcasm with no intent to help. Others are trying to help.

— Sterling W Sill

Mockery is an important social tool for squelching stupidity. I’ve never seen anyone change his mind because of the power of a superior argument…

— Scott Adams

It's a delightful thing to do, to entertain kids. They're a completely different audience because of their total lack of irony. You're always after…

— John Lithgow

It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.

— Gillian Flynn

We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.

— Anonymous

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

I don't want to just spend my life ridiculing something that I find ridiculous, although there is an element of satire in my work.

— David Shrigley

There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence for no…

— Jacques Rigaut