Satire Quotes

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

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.

It seems like there's a lot of people who just do not understand satire. They think it's weird. There's people who just don't understand you portray something or just explore a character, it means you're condoning it, saying this is the way to live.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it OK to cry.

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

It is difficult not to write satire.

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

We've managed to keep a spirit of fun, I guess, of urban satire and finding new and odd interesting angles to the ways of life to put on the stage.

The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly.

The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture.

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins.

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.

Satire is what closes on Saturday night.

The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.

I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

I love 'Glee.' I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it okay to cry.

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality.

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.

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.

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.