Top 400 Satire Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.
The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture.
Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.
Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation.
Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.
Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar.
I don't want to call the show [ "Mary and Jane" ] a satire because it is not, but there are satirical elements.
Satire that is seasonable and just is often more effectual than law or gospel.
Whatever is going on in the news and whoever is in the spotlight is up for grabs and fodder for satire.
Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
Satire makes people learn something more than being lectured.
I'm happy I got to do different kinds of roles - romance, action, and even a satire in 'Bangistan.'
Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.
I've always been a big fan of political and social satire.
I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.
The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture.
Wickedly funny to read and morally bracing as only good satire can be.
Satire has its limits. It is really up to the people to make the change. The satirist's role ends at the screen.
Satire always benefits when evil and stupidity collide.
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.
satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.
I've never been much drawn towards satire of any kind.
Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.
If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.
Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.
I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.
There are thousands of ways to make people laugh - satire, black comedy, slapstick.
Satire, like conscience, reminds us of what we often wish to forget.
I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin.
I learned you have to move fast, writing futuristic satire in America: Before you know it, you're a realist!
If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.
'Gulabo Sitabo' is a simple satire on life. It's a genre I have tried for the first time.
Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.
But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.
Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.
Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.
Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.
Satire is an abuse of wit. It corrects few evils.
Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.
I am a rooted person, 'Awwal' is a social satire.
How do we get a pantomime cow on set. Jeez, the rigours of satire.
If you look at 'Network' or any kind of satire, it's fundamentally unemotional in some ways.
I mean, the thing is, is that Britain has got a great tradition of irreverent political satire.
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
Life serves up satire. Unfortunately. Or fortunately. I don't know. You have to reel it in to drama.
Indonesian people don't get satire; that's the thing. There's no thought in our humor.
It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.
When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters.
Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.
It can take the uninitiated a minute to realize that 'Gangnam Style' is satire.
Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public.
