#satirical

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

...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

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

If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#humor

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

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

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

I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#i #individuals #nature #satirical #saw