“I think the reason that satire is on the rise is because the real news is so bad right now, ... I'd love it if we lived in a world where there was nothing to satire, but given this world, people need satire and comedy right now. ... [Humor] enables us to look at the horrible things going on and survive [them].”
Andy Borowitz
“This is good news to us all. We are defending the principle of the right for caricature and satire.”
Philippe Val
“I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.”
Lord Byron
“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.”
Voltaire
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
Mark Twain
“It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.”
