Allen Ginsberg Quotes

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.

Politics is applesauce.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

Democracy fascinates me.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Bad times for the Republic are great times for satire.

They which find themselves grieved under a democracy, call it anarchy.

Thank you, Mr. President, for hosting us and giving me the chance to be with so many people I haven’t voted for.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Everything can be satirized.

It is unfortunate that people believe that in order to democratise something you have to get politicians out of the system.

There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.

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

All of my novels are democracies.

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

I haven't watched 'Mad TV' a lot, but I have seen some stuff on there that is truly funny. You have to have some sort of attitude toward the subject, and they seem to have it. It depends on how much blood you want to draw.

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

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

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.

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.