Top 1200 Political Satire Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

I'm very political. I'm not political in public; I'm political at home.

Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.

I've never been much drawn towards satire of any kind.

Do not use thought to ground a political practice in Truth; nor political action to discredit, as mere speculation, a line of thought. Use political practice as an intensifier of thought, and analysis as a multiplier of the forms and domains for the intervention of political action.

I have always had a deep belief that every movie, every artistic expression, is political. Don't be fooled. Even ones that we wouldn't consider overtly political are political. When we spend time doing anything, whether it's distraction or whether it's something that we have to face, it is always political. That's my belief.

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 you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.

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

Satire that is seasonable and just is often more effectual than law or gospel.

The problem in the Syrian opposition is not between Islamists and non-Islamists. It was the lack of any political experience after 50 years of no political experience. The problem was a lack of political organizations that are truly effective and powerful. This is still a challenge now; it is a weakness in the reality of Syrian political life.

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

Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public.

If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really quite frightening about the level of the political debate happening on mainstream channels - right-wing-biased mothers.

The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.

Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation.

'Gulabo Sitabo' is a simple satire on life. It's a genre I have tried for the first time.

There are thousands of ways to make people laugh - satire, black comedy, slapstick.

The United States is in the midst of many spirited political debates about national priorities and public spending... However, we have found that science is an area where both political parties can find common ground, and in which political change does not necessarily create discontinuities.

The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture.

Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.

Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.

I mean, putting women in the center of a movie and not talking about men, that's already political, right? And you know, political doesn't mean that it sends this message or that is has a statement. It's also political in its aesthetic project.

I'm a sort of political person, and I feel that there's a kind of ineradicably political dimension to theater, to all theater, whether it's overtly political or not.

If the Bank of Canada does want to start getting more and more political, then it will be held to the same level of political accountability as other political entities.

Satire always benefits when evil and stupidity collide.

Wickedly funny to read and morally bracing as only good satire can be.

If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.

Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.

I learned you have to move fast, writing futuristic satire in America: Before you know it, you're a realist!

Real political issues cannot be manufactured by the leaders of political parties, and real ones cannot be evaded by political parties. The real political issues of the day declare themselves, and come out of the depths of that deep which we call public opinion.

The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind every political scene, the ultimate explanation of every political controversy, was the disposition of power.

I don't want to call the show [ "Mary and Jane" ] a satire because it is not, but there are satirical elements.

Indonesian people don't get satire; that's the thing. There's no thought in our humor.

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

To me, a political song is also a personal song. Most political activism has been driven by empathy for other people and the desire for a world that's less divisive. Even if songs aren't overtly political, they can make a listener more empathetic.

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

One of the more important things the Bernie Sanders campaign did is reach people who are political but not electorally political. They're political in either non-profits or community groups, but didn't see how important it was to get involved in electoral politics.

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

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

The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn't seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions. He even prides himself on his political ignorance, sticks out his chest and says he hates politics. He doesn't know, the imbecile, that from his political non-participation comes the prostitute, the abandoned child, the robber and, worst of all, corrupt officials, the lackeys of exploitative multinational corporations.

I'm happy I got to do different kinds of roles - romance, action, and even a satire in 'Bangistan.'

Global warming is a political issue. It is as much a political issue to the left as abortion is. It's as big a political issue as health care is.

Majorities are of two sorts: (1) communal majority and (2) political majority. A political majority is changeable in its class composition. A political majority grows. A communal majority is born. The admission to a political majority is open. The door to a communal majority is closed. The politics of political majority are free to all to make and unmake. The politics of communal majority are made by its own members born in it.

One political party must behave goodly with another political party, whatever is possible within the political jurisdiction.

Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

Whatever is going on in the news and whoever is in the spotlight is up for grabs and fodder for satire.

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

It can take the uninitiated a minute to realize that 'Gangnam Style' is satire.

When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters.

But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.

Satire, like conscience, reminds us of what we often wish to forget.

How do we get a pantomime cow on set. Jeez, the rigours of satire.

Life serves up satire. Unfortunately. Or fortunately. I don't know. You have to reel it in to drama.

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.

Satire makes people learn something more than being lectured.

Now the good of political life is a great political good. It is not a secular good specified by a comprehensive doctrine like those of Kant or Mill. You could characterize this political good as the good of free and equal citizens recognizing the duty of civility to one another: the duty to give citizens public reasons for one's political actions.

If you look at 'Network' or any kind of satire, it's fundamentally unemotional in some ways.