Any Quote by Sam Levinson

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 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

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

It is difficult not to write satire.

— Juvenal

The network by itself is meaningless. Only the people were ever meaningful.

— Jaron Lanier

satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.

— Barbara Tuchman

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

Life serves up satire. Unfortunately. Or fortunately. I don't know. You have to reel it in to drama.

— Stephen Gaghan

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

— Garry Trudeau

I feel like the Internet needs to be disarmed in some way. There needs to be a philosophical undermining of the Internet. We take…

— Sufjan Stevens

Satire is not a social dynamite. But it is a social indicator: it shows that new men are knocking at the door.

— Jacob Bronowski

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

— Chris Morris