Maajid Nawaz Quotes

The best cartoons work by making fun of sacred cows, in trying to inflict the uncomfortable.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.

It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for everybody.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

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

Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.

I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.

It is difficult not to write satire.

Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult.

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.

I like to write a lot of satire.

Bad times for the Republic are great times for satire.

Satire, whether it be satire or not, everything has to have boundaries.

I think satire is most effective when you love the thing you're satirizing rather than... have a vendetta against it.

Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.

Mike Judge is my Jonathan Swift, and I say that because I don't know any other satirists. But the problem with satire is that it's so easily misinterpreted.

I see the absurdity in things, and I think it's my job to point it out.

If you look at 'Network' or any kind of satire, it's fundamentally unemotional in some ways.

Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.

Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd, The milk of their good purpose all to curd. Their zeal begotten, as their works rehearse, By lean despair upon an empty purse.

Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.