#satirical

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 Void Which Binds] actual but unaccessible presence in our universe is one of the prime causes for our species elaborating myth and religion, for our stubborn, blind belief in extrasensory powers, in telepathy and precognition, in demons and demigods and resurrection and reincarnation and ghosts and messiahs and so many other categories of almost-but-not-quite satisfying bullshit. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#philosophical #satirical #science-fiction #religion

In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of. ↗

— Jimmy Carl Black

#bruce #i #in my opinion #influence #know

...they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve, and if you do, you never get the results you expected. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#democracy-voting #election #elections #false-promises #government

The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race. ↗

— Jack Levine

#direction #disappointment #expectations #high #high expectations

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

Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days. ↗

— John Pilger

#days #his #like #litmus #litmus test

The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#materialism #money #satirical #success #money

There were a Te Deum, clouds of incense, endless volleys of musketry and artillery; the peasants were frantic with joy and piety. Such a day undoes the work of a hundred numbers of the Jacobin papers. ↗

— Stendhal

#political #religion #satirical #social #theredandtheblack