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I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing. By Kristin Gore Writing Love Satire Skewering Comedy

There are parodies of non-existent things. By Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Things Parodies Nonexistent

For years, reality has been nipping at the heels of satire. Now, it's finally caught up. I don't need to make this stuff up. By Paul Krassner Years Reality Satire Nipping Heels

One way to drive home the futility and evil of war is to tap the distancing power of satire. By Steven Pinker Satire Drive Home Futility Evil

Satire is born of the cities it denounces. By Mason Cooley Satire Denounces Born Cities

Satire today has become a flat 'tyre'. By Amit Abraham Tyre Satire Flat Today

Satire always benefits when evil and stupidity collide. By Gary Shteyngart Satire Collide Benefits Evil Stupidity

There is a satire that exists in 'My Arm,' but there is also an honoring of some of the stronger ideas that I've raided from visual art. By Tim Crouch Arm Art Satire Exists Honoring

A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true. By G.k. Chesterton False True Man Angry Libel

For a young and presumptuous poet a disposition to write satires is one of the most dangerous he can encourage. It tempts him to personalities, which are not always forgiven after he has repented and become ashamed of them. By Robert Southey Encourage Young Presumptuous Poet Disposition

We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism. This conjunction fosters events that go beyond the wildest dream of satire- if satire existed in America anymore; perhaps the reason for its weakness is that reality has superseded it. By Robert Hughes America Combines Euphemism Entered Period

Satire is an abuse of wit. It corrects few evils. By Christian Nestell Bovee Satire Wit Abuse Evils Corrects

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire. By Theodor Adorno Forces Satire Decay Blind Liberated

Everything I love: literature, irony, humor, the individual, and the defense of free expression. By Christopher Hitchens Literature Irony Humor Love Individual

Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them. By Richard Brinsley Sheridan Satires Parties Lampoons People Circulate

Every writer scrounges for inspiration in different places, and there's no shame in raiding the headlines. It's necessary, in fact, when attempting contemporary satire. Sharp-edged humor relies on topical reference points. By Carl Hiaasen Places Headlines Writer Scrounges Inspiration

Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines. By Carl Hiaasen Good Anger Satire Injustice Fixed

Satire is not a social dynamite. But it is a social indicator: it shows that new men are knocking at the door. By Jacob Bronowski Satire Dynamite Social Indicator Door

Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms. By Aldous Huxley Parodies Criticisms Caricatures Penetrating

Good satire goes beyond the specific point it's trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or [Stephen] Colbert wraps it up, you're not left believing everything they're telling you. By Aaron Mcgruder Good Critically Stephen Satire Specific

Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation. By Lizz Winstead Good Conversation Satire Thoughtprovoking

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. By George Gordon Byron Fools Theme Song Satire

Satire is enjoyable compensation for being forced to think. By Edgar Johnson Satire Enjoyable Compensation Forced

Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the need for the court jester, the one soul allowed to tell the truth through laughter, By Joe Randazzo Satire Society Accompany Free Necessity

Today I realize that many recent exercises in "deconstructive reading" read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it must never be afraid of going too far. If its aim is true, it simply heralds what others will later produce, unblushing, with impassive and assertive gravity. By Umberto Eco Today Deconstructive Reading Read Parody

When scandal has new-minted an old lie,Or tax'd invention for a fresh supply,'Tis call'd a satire, and the world appearsGathering around it with erected ears;A thousand names are toss'd into the crowd,Some whisper'd softly, and some twang'd aloud,Just as the sapience of an author's brain,Suggests it safe or dangerous to be plain. By William Cowper Tis Supply Satire Ears Softly

Satire also allows you to make fun of every different aspect. It allows you to make fun of both sides. It allows you to make fun of everything, really, so you can do it in a harmless way. By Neill Blomkamp Make Fun Satire Aspect Sides

Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet to run amok and tilt at all I meet. By Alexander Pope Satire Weapon Meet Discreet Run

The very greatest satire, I came to think the kind that lives forever ultimately grew out of a debunking attitude toward the self. To see the world mock-heroically was necessarily to engage in a sort of preliminary self-burlesque. You couldn't take yourself *that* seriously. You were part of it. All the Lilliputian preening and pomposity was, at bottom, one's own. By Terry Castle Satire Greatest Kind Lives Forever

Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is being said is at its most outrageous. By Tony Hendra Satire Outrageous Dramatizes Inherent Contradiction

You cannot kill satire. By New York Times Satire Kill

Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake. By Samuel Richardson Friendly Lancet Sake Satire Compared

The most brilliant satire of all time was 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift. You'll notice how everything got straightened out in Ireland within days of that coming out. By P. J. O'rourke Proposal Swift Modest Jonathan Brilliant

One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire. By Franklin P. Adams Satire Man Pointlessness Barbed

The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it. By Edwin Hubbel Chapin Satire Nature Highest Genius Flowers

Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century. By Paul Fry Century Satire Professionals Special Vocabulary

A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies. By Madame Roland Flies Fondness Satire Mind Pleased

Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job. By Garry Trudeau Satire Control Form Social Personal

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 reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. By Jonathan Swift Satire World Sort Glass Beholders

Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate. By Herb Caen Selfcanceling Satire Deliberate Shock Tactics

The audiences like to think that satire is doing something. But, in fact, it is mostly to leave themselves satisfied. Satisfied rather than angry, which is what they should be. By Tom Lehrer Audiences Satire Satisfied Fact Angry

For even satire is a form of sympathy. By D.h. Lawrence Sympathy Satire Form

It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him. By Georg C. Lichtenberg Children Truth Mouths Fools Good

Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others' bare. By William Cowper Satire Flame Brands Blame Offences

Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd, The milk of their good purpose all to curd. Their zeal begotten, as their works rehearse, By lean despair upon an empty purse. By William Cowper Scourge Purge Turns Stirr Curd

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House. By Robin Williams Dead People House Satire White

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. By Karl Kraus Satire Longer Make People Big

Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few. By Paul Klee Political Satirical Gradually Compositions Make

Life serves up satire. Unfortunately. Or fortunately. I don't know. You have to reel it in to drama. By Stephen Gaghan Life Satire Serves Fortunately Drama

All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor. By Samuel Johnson Valuable Judgment Benefactor Public Truth

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous. By Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Satire Dissent Irreverence Platitudinous Rebirth

If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history. By Pierre Bayle Weaknesses Crimes Mankind History Historian

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. By Al Franken Important Politics Reason Wrote Political

There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins. By Isaac Hayes Begins Satire Place World Time

Charlie Hebdo: Satire was the father of true political freedom, born in the 18th century; the scourge of bigots and tyrants. Sing its praises. By Simon Schama Hebdo Satire Century Charlie Freedom

The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture. By Ben Nicholson British Irish Satire Culture Love

Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility. By Umberto Eco Thing Satire Political Englishlanguage Newspapers

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game. By Vladimir Nabokov Satire Lesson Parody Game

Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public. By Frank Zappa American Producing Public Satire Kind

Everything can be satirized. By Sam Kinison Satirized

Reality has an odd habit of catching up with satire. By Walter Isaacson Reality Satire Odd Habit Catching

The critics try to intellectualize my material. There's no satire involved. Satire is a concept that can only be understood by adults. My stuff is straight, for people of all ages. By Andy Kaufman Material Critics Intellectualize Satire Involved

Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a satire. By Hedda Hopper Smart Successful Writers Understand Town

Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed. By Anthony Trollope Satire Lashes Lashed Exaggerate Vice

There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and satires that are written with wit and spirit are like poisoned darts, which not only inflict a wound, but make it incurable. By Joseph Addison Reputation Spirit Betrays Base Ungenerous

My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way. By Joey Skaggs People Beliefs Challenge Satirical Artist

The real satire starts when I'm shockingly mocked,not mockingly shocked. By Munia Khan Shocked Real Satire Starts Shockingly

I think satire is a luxury of literate middle-class people. People who are well fed and relatively secure in their beds can laugh at their troubles. They can enjoy sitcoms. For those who aren't quite so lucky, well, the irony might be lost on them. By Harold Ramis People Satire Luxury Literate Middleclass

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale. By Laurence Housman Politics Satire High Scale Modern

Blurring reality and fiction: Fiction written to provoke and to entertain By Ronald S. Barak Fiction Blurring Entertain Reality Written

Difficile est satiram non scribere[It is hard not to write a satire] By Juvenal Difficile Scribere Satire Est Satiram

I don't think this kind of thing [satire] has an impact on the unconverted, frankly. It's not even preaching to the converted; it's titillating the converted. I think the people who say we need satire often mean, 'We need satire of them, not of us.' I'm fond of quoting Peter Cook, who talked about the satirical Berlin cabarets of the '30s, which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the Second World War. By Tom Lehrer Satire Frankly Converted Thing Unconverted

Satire has been a sanctuary historically monopolized by progressives, originally used as a discreet tool against Western religious fundamentalism. By Maajid Nawaz Western Satire Progressives Originally Fundamentalism

I wonder if any of you have ever noticed that it is sometimes those who find most pleasure and amusement in their fellow man, and have most hope in his goodness, who get the reputation of being his most carping critics. Maybe it is that the satirist is so full of the possibilities of humankind in general, that he tends to draw a dark and garish picture when he tries to depict people as they are at any particular moment. The satirist is usually a pretty unpopular fellow. The only time he attains even fleeting popularity is when his works can be used by some political faction as a stick to beat out the brains of their opponents. Satirical writing is by definition unpopular writing. Its aim is to prod people into thinking. Thinking hurts.(John Dos Passos, 1957, from the speech he delivered upon accepting the Gold Medal for Eminence in Fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters) By John Dos Passos Man Goodness Critics Satirist Noticed

A French newspaper accidentally ran a picture of Amy and me from the Katie Couric sketch thinking it was a picture of Couric and Palin. Although I think that had less to do with the "power of satire" and more to do with the fact that to the French, we are all indistinguishable fat dough balls. By Tina Fey Couric Picture Palin Amy Katie

Wickedly funny to read and morally bracing as only good satire can be. By William Styron Wickedly Funny Read Morally Bracing

I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse. By Kate Christensen Satire Writing Worse Write People

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire. By Benjamin Franklin Praise Satire Undeserving Severe

Satire is what closes Saturday night. By Juvenal Saturday Satire Night Closes

Satire is what closes on Saturday night. By George S. Kaufman Saturday Satire Night Closes

I'm not satirical in a traditional way. What I do is more about creating caricatures and cartoons. I am commentating on the nature of how we live through photography, and how you can twist an angle to create a different perception of a person. By Alison Jackson Satirical Traditional Cartoons Photography Person

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. By Joseph Addison Satire Writers Antiquity Instruct Openly

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 can be very difficult to speak your mind, but sometimes, I believe, we're all in danger and I think this discussion needs to be widened. By George Michael Time Satire Place Political Purposes

We pay homage to the people who came before, doing satires, like Mel Brooks; we're just carrying the torch. By Shawn Wayans Brooks Mel Satires Torch Pay

Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain. By Paul Klee Ill Satire View God Kind

The more repression there is, the more need there is for irreverence toward those who are responsible for that repression. But too often sarcasm passes for irony, name-calling passes for insight, bleeped-out four-letter words pass for wit, and lowest-common-denominator jokes pass for analysis. Satire should have a point of view. It doesn't have to get a belly laugh. It does have to present criticism. By Paul Krassner Repression Irreverence Responsible Passes Pass

Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored. By Karl Kraus Satire Censored Censor Understands Rightly

A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love. By A.o. Scott Loyalty Satire Honesty Ambition Love

The history of imitation of the older literature, particularly abroad, has among other advantages this one, that the important concepts of unintentional parody and passive wit can be deduced from it most easily and comprehensively. By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Literature Abroad Comprehensively History Imitation

I don't want to just spend my life ridiculing something that I find ridiculous, although there is an element of satire in my work. By David Shrigley Ridiculous Work Spend Life Ridiculing

It's intriguing to observe so many of the outrageous prophecies, made with such biting satire years ago in the first edition, come into being through the craft of so many self-entitled egomaniacs running a global 'corpornation' for personal interest and professional profit. I had no idea then, as I now know, that I was writing with so much understatement. Honest outrage and political satire are two of the most important weapons that we have to protect infringement against our personal freedoms through oligarchy and to maintain any semblance of humanity in our democracy as our government aggressively privatizes and over-reaches at the expense of those millions whom it has sworn so dishonestly to serve and has utterly abandoned. By David B. Lentz Corpornation Prophecies Made Edition Global

Parody by itself is not subversive, and there must be a way to understand what makes certain kinds of parodic repetitions effectively disruptive, truly troubling, and which repetitions become domesticated and recirculated as instruments of cultural hegemony By Judith Butler Repetitions Parody Subversive Disruptive Troubling

Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? By Alexander Pope Alas Satire Sense Sporus Feel

All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure. By Moliere Discomfort Satires Stage Viewed Mirrors

As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis. By Henry David Thoreau Satire Particeps Criminis Long Poet

The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears. By Stephen Leacock Victorians Parody Needed Growth Overwatered

Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again. By Maajid Nawaz Offensive Satire Definition Meant Make

But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire ... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire. By Henry David Thoreau Satire Poem Man Divinest Life

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it. By Lenny Bruce Time Satire Tragedy Public Ridiculous

'The Author' is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence. By Tim Crouch Author Violence Subtly Unflinching Satirical