Offensive Quote by Tom Lehrer Download Open image “You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.” — Tom Lehrer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Offensive Satirical Somebody You
If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that. — John Cusack Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless,… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I don't try to be satirical. I just try to get what's in my head on the page. And that part is hard for… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
Plagiarize, plagiarize, / Let no man's work evade your eyes, / Remember why the good Lord made your eyes, / Don't shade your eyes,… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
I ache for the touch of your lips dear, but much more for the touch of your whips dear. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
When someone makes a move Of which we don't approve, Who is it that always intervenes? U.N. and O.A.S., They have their place, I… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Don't solicit for your sister, it's not nice. Unless you get a good percentage of her price. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
“I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky. In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics: Plagiarize!… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Counting in octal is just likst counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
San Francisco is a city of twenty-something millionaire white kids named Doug. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Ninety-eight percent of the things that come out of my mouth are intended to be harmless or even charming. They're not ever intended to… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just… — William Hurt Copy Share Image
Well, you know, they use those words so that they can scare people "terror" and "cell." — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I would like to publicly apologize to anyone I have NOT offended¦I will get to you shortly. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reality is that our military presence on foreign soil is as offensive to the people that live there as armed Chinese troops would… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
You can make dark, sinister, weird jokes without being deeply offensive. — Rebecca Front Copy Share Image
It's a scary thing when a team don't know who to match up to, whose night it's going to be on the offensive end. — Jae Crowder Copy Share Image
On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia... — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When you defend and rebound and you trust the pass on the offensive end, you're going to have the ability to win a lot… — Frank Vogel Copy Share Image
I make it a point to listen to a song before being a part of it to ensure that there is nothing offensive or… — Urvashi Rautela Copy Share Image
Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
