satirist quotes

Explore witty and clever quotes from satirists who fearlessly mock society and politics. Laugh out loud at their humorous take on everyday life.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.

- Joseph Heller

He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.

- Joseph Heller

Anything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.

- Joseph Heller

I think that if you use the so-called 'strong words' you'll get your point across faster and you can save a lot of beating around the bush. Why are people so afraid of words? Sometimes the dumbest thing that gets said makes the point for you.

- Frank Zappa

I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.

- Frank Zappa

To me, absurdity is the only reality.

- Frank Zappa

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it. Try to fake three laughs in an hour -- ha ha ha ha ha -- they'll take you away, man. You can't.

- Lenny Bruce

The American Constitution was not written to protect criminals; it was written to protect the government from becoming criminals.

- Lenny Bruce

The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.

- Lenny Bruce

Take away the right to say ‘fuck’ and you take away the right to say ‘fuck the government'.

- Lenny Bruce

Life is a four-letter word.

- Lenny Bruce

Liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.

- Lenny Bruce

It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.

- Lenny Bruce

Life is not measured by the breathes you take, but by the moments that take your breathe away.

- George Carlin

If there was absolute freedom, people would run over babies and charge admission

- Lenny Bruce

If something about the human body disgusts you, the fault lies with the manufacturer.

- Lenny Bruce

I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.

- Lenny Bruce

I would become a priest or a rabbi or a monk or whatever the hell was necessary to perform miracles such as taking money from someone else's pocket and putting it into mine, still remaining within the confines of the law.

- Lenny Bruce

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner.

- Lenny Bruce

I was not born in a vacuum. Every thought I have belongs to someone else.

- Lenny Bruce