#tire

A satirist is never certain whether he/she will be acclaimed or punished. ↗

— Edgar Johnson

#satire #satire

You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use. ↗

— Bram Cohen

#die #get #having #i #just

Irreverence is our only sacred cow. ↗

— Paul Krassner

#satire #censorship

The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret. [Fred. Free.] ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#satire

When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum. ↗

— Mark Twain

#humour #satire #satire

Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. you're mad ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#satire

People have been born in refugee camps and they are getting tired of that. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#born #camps #getting #people #refugee

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#art #complete #entirely #hedgehog #isolated

...the very greatest satire, I came to think -- the kind that lives forever -- ultimately grew out of a debunking attitude toward the self. To see the world mock-heroically was necessarily to engage in a sort of preliminary self-burlesque. You couldn't take yourself *that* seriously. You were part of it. All the Lilliputian preening and pomposity was, at bottom, one's own. ↗

— Terry Castle

#satire #self-burlesque #attitude

Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#everything #heavy #never #nothing #tired