1,006 Quotes About Satire

Probably went swimming and got eaten by a pineapple.

A question I have often asked is, ‘What would an inoffensive political cartoon look like?’ What would a respectful cartoon look like? The form requires disrespect and so if we are going to have in the world things like cartoons and satire, we just have to accept it as part of the price of freedom."(Interview, The Hindu, 2012)

Gossip columnists patrol their mundane arena with the same sort of mysterious merit the advice-givers do. Plainly put, how does anyone become a gossip columnist? I can't simplify it down to a lower scale than that. Are there universities that offer courses in gossip writing? How about plain old Gossip 111? Are there that many literate people who could not write a gossip column? What then, qualifies the chosen few above the rest?

A little child was in the audience [at Donald Trump’s inauguration], and he started to cry, because the emperor was wearing so many clothes.

The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.

A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist.

We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every single thing we do or say.

*Prostitution* is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from.

Every single good person is a good person for their own sake, not for the sake of humanity, not even for the sake of another human being.