Society Satire Quotes

#1. Nothing is new anymore. We're living in a post-everything society and "art" itself has become satire.

Ruadhan J. McElroy

#2. If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.

Erica Jong

#3. A sunset is always more beautiful when it is covered with irregularly shaped clouds, because only then can it reflect the many colors out of which dreams and poetry are made. Pity

Paulo Coelho

#4. Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to- morrow you arrive there, and know them by inhabiting them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. I will say further, as an officer of an enormous international conglomerate, that nobody who is doing well in this economy ever even wonders waht is really going on.
We are chimpanzees. We are orangutans.

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. On the other side of that coin, and far outweighing it, is the fact that I've been able to use genre of Fantasy/Horror and express my opinion, talk a little about society, do a little bit of satire and that's been great, man. A lot of people don't have that platform.

George A. Romero

#7. This is a very grave matter, punishable by ... well, I do not exactly know what, but something rather severe, I should imagine.

Susanna Clarke

#8. You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

Art Buchwald

#9. The Crusaders lead to the Knights Templar; the Knights Templar lead to the Masons; and the Masons lead to the Shriners, a secret society that controls world government, toys with our banking system, and single-handedly keeps the fez industry afloat.

Stephen Colbert

#10. I thank thee, Lord, for forgiving me, but I prefer staying in the darkness: forgive me that too." - "No; that cannot be. The one thing that cannot be forgiven is the sin of choosing to be evil, of refusing deliverance. It is impossible to forgive that. It would be to take part in it.

George MacDonald

#11. Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#12. As long as any group within the society deliberately maintains its identity it is, or should be, a fair target for satire - both for its own good and for the society's.

Gore Vidal

#13. Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the need for the court jester, the one soul allowed to tell the truth through laughter,

Joe Randazzo

#14. It's - it's always lightest j-just before the dark.

Jim Thompson

#15. What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.

Warren Spahn

#16. The successful conduct of economic policy is possible only if there is - and is seen to be - full agreement between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Nigel Lawson

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

D.H. Lawrence

#18. The wisest married men give in early. They get in touch with the wife side of themselves, and that's when they stop arguing.

Bill Cosby

#19. Divorce is a marital welfare. It's just couples asking society to bail them out because they didn't do enough research before they got married. How is that our fault? Don't drag down my country's statistics just because you ran off and got hitched before you ever saw each other in a bad mood.

Stephen Colbert

#20. You could make any song sound creepy if you wanted. It's all about the inflection.

Willie Nelson