America Quote by Robert Hughes

We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism.

— Robert Hughes

There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs…

— Isaac Hayes

There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs...…

— Isaac Hayes

“But Americans have also exercised an additional option for decades: make fun of something. The Constitution does not guarantee Americans the right to satirize…

— Michael Kantor

SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. In…

— Ambrose Bierce

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

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 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

The American public highly overrates its sense of humor. We're great belly laughers and prat fallers, but we never really did have a real…

— Bill Mauldin

“Originated by the green leading-edge in academia, this aperspectival madness of “no truth” leapt out of the universities, and morphed into an enormous variety…

— Ken Wilber

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 meant to have teeth; satire is meant to be dangerous. But it also happens to be fun because subversion and telling the…

— John Cusack