Satire Quotes - page 5

Satire in media such as The Interview and Charlie Hebdo walk a fine line between freedom of speech and dangerous incitement. (Newton Lee)
It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge. View quote
John Oliver (comedian)
What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy. View quote
Joseph Pulitzer
You can't debate satire. Either you get it or you don't. View quote
Michael Moore
SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own. View quote
Quintilian
You piss off a bard, and forget about putting a curse on you, he might put a satire on you. View quote
Alan Moore
Cartoons are ridicule and satire by definition. A negative attitude is the nature of the art. View quote
Paul Conrad
If you're going to give people 20 minutes of news satire, you've also got to give them Tiffani-Amber Thiessen or you're going to have rioting in the streets. View quote
Jon Stewart
Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy. View quote
Stephen Colbert
I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin. If that ever happens, it's only because something happened during the interview that got me going, and then I had to translate my feelings to the mouth of the character. (Stephen Colbert)
I have never knowingly, I swear to God, written satire. The word connotes exaggeration of the foibles of mankind. To me, mankind just has foibles. You don't have to push it! View quote
Tom Wolfe
Pornography is a satire on human pretensions. View quote
Angela Carter
Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers.... Pornography is a satire on human pretensions. View quote
Angela Carter
The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio. View quote
Al Franken
It's so funny that people think I actually ran for President. I am maybe the most un-political person you're ever going to meet. When I put "Elected" out, it was definitely a satire ... "Alice Cooper for President" ... when everybody realized I was running against Nixon, you known, even on a joke level, I think I got a lot of write-in votes. View quote
Alice Cooper
I think comedy and satire are a very important part of democracy, and it's important we are able to laugh at the idiosyncrasies or the follies or vanities of people in power. View quote
Rory Bremner
For pointed satire I would Buckhurst choose, The best good man with the worst-natured muse. View quote
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
Satire, by being leveled at all, is never resented for an offence by any. View quote
Jonathan Swift
I have now reached the point where I can look over the great art of antiquity and its Renaissance. But, for myself, I cannot find any artistic connection with our own times. And to want to create something outside of one's own age strikes me as suspect. Great perplexity. This is why I am again all on the side of satire. Am I to be completely absorbed by it once more? For the time being it is my only creed. Perhaps I shall never become positive? In any case, I will defend myself like a wild beast. View quote
Paul Klee
What does the artist create? Forms and spaces! How does he create them? In certain chosen proportions.. .O satire, you plague of intellectuals. (Paul Klee)
The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it's a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible. View quote
Salman Rushdie
Ideology critique raises a claim that it shares with hermeneutics, namely, the claim to understand an "author” better than he understands himself. What at first sounds arrogant about this claim can be methodologically justified. Others often really do perceive things about me that escape my attention-and conversely. They possess the advantage of distance, which I can profit from only retrospectively through dialogic mirroring. This, of course, would presuppose a functioning dialogue, which is precisely what does not take place in the process of ideology critique. An ideology critique that does not clearly accept its identity as satire can, however, easily be transformed from an instrument in the search for truth into one of dogmatism. All too often, it interferes with the capacity for dialogue instead of opening up new paths for it. View quote
Peter Sloterdijk
Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. View quote
Molly Ivins
There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what Garrison Keillor does. The other kind holds people up to public contempt and ridicule -- that's what I do. Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar. -quoted in People magazine interview, 1991. View quote
Molly Ivins