Satire Quotes - Page 3

A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species.

Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden

Among the writers of antiquity there are none who instruct us more openly in the manners of their respective times in which they lived than those who have employed themselves in satire, under whatever dress it may appear.

A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that are not the proper objects of it.

Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.

What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfies, it censures too.

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

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

Nobody and nothing beats The Simpsons. Even after all this time, it's still the best satire since Monty Python.

I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms.

Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation.

Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.

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 truth.

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

Satire has a great big glaring target. If successful, it blasts a great big hole in the center. Directness there must be and singleness of aim: it is all aim, all trajectory.

Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire.

Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy.

I grew up around media so for me I've always been interested in that topic, whether it's a complete satire or a documentary. I love anything that touches on the state of information versus entertainment and what's newsworthy and what's not.

Satire doesn't effect change.

life becomes satire in real time, what good is the premiere satire magazine? It might as well just be the newspaper. You could pick up The Wall Street Journal and be like, "Oh, what a funny Onion headline!" And then the editor of The Onion is like, "Huh. I guess you won't be needing me anymore."

Satire is born of the cities it denounces.

Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.

Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.

To me, that's where a lot of satire lies. News used to hold itself to a higher plane and slowly it has dissolved into, well, me.