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

In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.

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

I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.

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

When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar.

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

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

Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.

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

Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.

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

It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.

A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.

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

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

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

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.

Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.

In general satire, every man perceives A slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves.

I feel like comedy is important, and I think political satire can be really important.

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

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

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

The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

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

Satire can always be found everywhere. A people without love for satire is a dead people.

Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays.

I have shot for a political satire by Anubhav Sinha called 'Abhi Toh Party Shuru Hui Hai.'

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.

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

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.

I mean, the thing is, is that Britain has got a great tradition of irreverent political satire.

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

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

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.

I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar.

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

I think you're born with a comedy gene, and you can't teach timing, and you can't teach satire, pathos.

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

I think comedy and satire are the strongest ways to deal with very serious themes and very painful themes.

Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.

I have been a part of four different genres - a political satire, gangster drama, thriller and period drama.

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

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