Social Satire Quotes

#1. I'm looking at some comedic horror films because I have often been accused of being too dark. I'm not dark, not compared with 'Saw' or anything like that. So I'm looking at live-action horror films, but not slasher ones - ones that have humor and maybe some social satire.

Henry Selick

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

John Cusack

#3. Social satire has been around since people have been around.

David Walliams

#4. Okay well - no that is a very real thing seven-year-olds asking for BlackBerrys and cell phones and things like that. And that's one of the things I love most about the show is the social satire.

Debra Messing

#5. My inner goddess confirms that staring at a beautiful/rich/powerful face is the basis of True Love.

Jess C. Scott

#6. I believe that reappropriation can be a powerful tool for creating social change. Sometimes, things like irony, satire, or humor are more effective in getting at difficult truths or concepts like white privilege, orientalism, and the exoticization of culture.

Simon S. Tam

#7. Nick sat alone reading a copy of The Independent . Cocaine socialists were trying their hardest to juice up Britain's economy with super casinos

Saira Viola

#8. So much of language is unspoken. So much of language is compromised of looks and gestures and sounds that are not words. People are ignorant of the vast complexity of their own communication.

Garth Stein

#9. Simple. Keep it simple. I am Brian Robeson. I have been in a plane crash. I am going to find some food. I am going to find some berries. He

Gary Paulsen

#10. The image that the public gets is whatever they perceive it to be. Everybody has an opinion, everybody has their own vision, so I don't know what my public image is. I have no idea.

Lenny Kravitz

#11. There was Arctic John, a businessman from Salisbury who doesn't hold water, Bruce Knott, a social worker from Cumberland who spends his lunch hour picking his bum, and Judith Glycerine, the reformation pig.

St John Morris

#12. He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often prevented their manifestation.

Nikolai Gogol

#13. Music is no longer tasted it is swallowed.

Jules Verne

#14. Religion and nationalism? I defecate on the altar of religious conviction, and wipe my arse on the flag of national pride.

Ian Martin

#15. This was truly advanced WASP: how to comfort a wronged wife and mother without acknowledging any misdeeds done or embarrassment caused by loved ones.

Maggie Shipstead

#16. Reality Tv had become the preferred drug of choice for the George Clooney obsessed housewives strung out on empty promises and splintered dreams

Saira Viola

#17. Welcome to Hell. Here's your accordion.

Gary Larson

#18. She was all slump and sag her spirit withering like a tuckering weed shambling for a way out

Saira Viola

#19. Because I want to have sex with him
and because that's sinful
I'm blushing and flushing furiously under his scrutinizing scrutiny.

Jess C. Scott

#20. Everyday she loses a bit more of herself , every day another nail in her coffin house payments medical bills and middle aged isolation

Saira Viola

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

Garry Trudeau

#22. Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.

Thomas Hobbes

#23. The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.

Laurence Housman

#24. Satire is not a social dynamite. But it is a social indicator: it shows that new men are knocking at the door.

Jacob Bronowski

#25. In Chestnut Hill money didn't talk, but it drank, and played a lot of golf.

Alistair McHarg

#26. Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.

D.H. Lawrence

#27. He was too smitten by his second wife and the sons she produced easily and regularly at eighteen-month intervals to bother too much about a daughter.

Anita Nair

#28. My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you.

Jack Bowman

#29. There is no certainty of what will or won't be in our lives. All we have is this moment. The last is gone, the next isn't here yet.

Curt Mega

#30. I sometimes think humor and satire are more effective techniques for expressing social statements than direct comment.

Kristin Hunter

#31. I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

Matt Groening

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

John Cusack