Satirist Quotes

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

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.

Life is so absurd now that it is almost impossible to be a satirist in this era.

In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.

Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.

I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality.

Satirists do expose their own ill nature.

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.

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.

A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.

Satire has its limits. It is really up to the people to make the change. The satirist's role ends at the screen.

Blessed is the satirist; and blessed the ironist; blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist; for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.

A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species.

A political satirist's job is to draw blood. I'm not so much interested in politics as I am in overthrowing the government.

When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.

There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, look!

I'm glad to be able to announce that the UK now has it's very own mindless twit. || Either that or he's a damn good satirist.

I've spent my entire career being a satirist.

Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.

The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged.

I first adventure, follow me who list And be the second English satirist

The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter.

The satirist isn't just looking at things ironically but militantly - he wants to change them, and intends to have an effect on the world.

I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special.

[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others.

It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish.

A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist.

VW used to mean FAHRVERGNUGEN and now it's FARFROMUNION!Birgit Von Schondorf

Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.

Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.

Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.

Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.

Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.

Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.

Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.

The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.

In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.

Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the chocolate industry’s use of minors.

There is nothing morally wrong with buying stolen goods, unless you know that they were stolen.

Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age.

As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive for many years has become a boy again.

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.

Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.

A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.

Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.

In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone to whom they are a boss.

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.

In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.