Satire Quotes

“The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.”

“It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists: Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments.”

“Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.”

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

“I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel, it's vulgar.”

“Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel.”

“All anyone needs to enjoy the state legislature is a strong stomach and a complete insensitivity to the needs of the people.”

“In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”

“I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8 to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.”

“I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.”

“When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.”

“The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it.”

“If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.”

"Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing."

Voltaire

"Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses."

Moliere

"All professions are conspiracies against the laity."

“When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.”

"If the law supposes that, the law is a ass - a idiot."

Charles Dickens

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."

"The one great principle of the English law is to make business for itself."

Charles Dickens

"It is a maxim among these lawyers that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again."

Jonathan Swift

"The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine."

Alexander Pope

"The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business."

Clarence Darrow

“The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal.”

Kurt Vonnegut

“Faith is believing what you know ain't so.”

Mark Twain