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All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.

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

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly.

The show is a satire, which gives us freedom to do anything we want. Satire is the magic word that wipes away any culpability. The media is jealous of this freedom.

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

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

It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality.

The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!

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

We've managed to keep a spirit of fun, I guess, of urban satire and finding new and odd interesting angles to the ways of life to put on the stage.

There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins.

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

It seems like there's a lot of people who just do not understand satire. They think it's weird. There's people who just don't understand you portray something or just explore a character, it means you're condoning it, saying this is the way to live.

It is difficult not to write satire.

Satire is what closes on Saturday night.

For years, reality has been nipping at the heels of satire. Now, it's finally caught up. I don't need to make this stuff up.

When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.