Satirical Quotes

I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.

Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive.

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.

You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.

Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.

The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.

In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of.

It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.