#satirical

My little friend Grildrig; you have made a most admirable panegyrick upon your country. You have clearly proved that ignorance, idleness, and vice, are the proper ingredients for qualifying a legislator. That laws are best explained, interpreted, and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding, and eluding them. I observe among you, some lines of an institution, which in its original might have been tolerable; but these half erased, and the rest wholly blurred and blotted by corruptions. It doth not appear, from all you have said, how any one perfection is required towards the procurement of any one station among you...I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives, to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#nature

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. ↗

— George Orwell

#animals #man #satirical #man

Sin duda no los juilaban por sus influencias y por esa simpatía y respeto que ha habido siempre en España por lo inútil. ↗

— Pío Baroja

#satirical #satire

It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things. ↗

— Rube Goldberg

#crazy #happened #just #public #quality

You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#satirical #somebody #you

I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#i #individuals #nature #satirical #saw

Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#compassionate #i #i think #imagine #life

Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical. ↗

— Joey Skaggs

#edge #fake #important #most #plausible

My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way. ↗

— Joey Skaggs

#beliefs #challenge #enable #hope #how

The birthing wolf, Her heart fed with tenderness, Gave forth from ripe brown nipples, Food to feed the universe. ↗

— Roman Payne

#hope-and-despair #payne #poem #roman #roman-payne