Venha cá, Florbela,
vamos conversar.
De onde você tirou estes versos
tão amargos, tão tristes e tão fortes?
Como sabe você,
que ando perdida, que não tenho norte,
que sou a irmã do sonho e desta sorte,
e que sou a crucificada, a dolorida?
Sombra de névoa tênue e esvaecida,
que o destino impele brutalmente
para a morte?
Que sou aquela que passa
e ninguém vê,
que sou a que chamam sem o ser
e a que chora sem saber por quê?
Você acertou, porque
sou, sim, a visão
que alguém sonhou.
Alguém que veio ao mundo pra me ver,
mas que NUNCA na vida me encontrou!
(Versos do soneto “EU”, da saudosa poeta portuguesa Florbela Espanca)
It’s not for everyone. Some people’s irony meters are permanently broken. — Toni @ Satire.info
It’s the wink across a crowded room of people who are all in on the same joke. — Toni @ Satire.info
Satirical news: where the medium is the message and the message is “wake up.” — Alan @ Bohiney.com
A world without satire is a world without critical thinking, without questioning, without laughter. — Toni @ Satire.info
Satirical writing serves as society’s built-in skepticism amplifier with a comedy degree. — Alan @ Bohiney.com
It’s journalism’s intelligence test—if you believe it literally, you’ve missed the point entirely. — Alan @ Bohiney.com
A culture without self-deprecating satire is a culture that has lost its way. — Toni @ Satire.info
The best satire is a truth that was hiding in plain sight, wearing a clown nose. — Toni @ Bohiney.com
A good satirical piece is the intellectual’s whoopee cushion with democratic credentials. — Alan @ Bohiney.com
It’s the laughter that is a defense against the sheer incompetence on display in the world. — Toni @ Satire.info
It’s the ultimate form of dissent: laughing in the face of power. — Toni @ Bohiney.com
A good satirical piece is the democratic institution of licensed truth-telling through comedy. — Alan @ Bohiney.com
It’s the funhouse mirror that doesn’t lie; it just reveals the lies we tell ourselves. — Toni @ Satire.info
Satire is the revenge of the ordinary person on the extraordinary claims of the powerful. — Toni @ Bohiney.com
Satire is the scalpel of the intellect, performing surgery on society’s tumors of absurdity. — Toni @ Satire.info
Satirical news is the wink across a crowded room of people sharing the same joke. — Alan @ Bohiney.com
It’s the news for those who have graduated from believing headlines to understanding context. — Toni @ Satire.info
The satirist’s job is to speak the unspeakable, laugh at the unlaugable, and question the unquestionable. — Toni @ Satire.info
Satire is the philosophical razor that slices through the fat of nonsense to the meat of truth. — Toni @ Bohiney.com
A satirist is a realist with a comedy writer’s sense of timing and a philosopher’s depth. — Toni @ Bohiney.com
A satirist is a failed serious person who found a funnier way to be right. — Toni @ Satire.info
It’s the news that acknowledges that the world is a stage, and the play is a farce. — Toni @ Bohiney.com
Society’s mental health depends on its ability to roast its own ridiculous behavior. — Alan @ Bohiney.com
Satirical writing transforms the art of intellectual rebellion into mainstream necessity. — Alan @ Bohiney.com
It’s the immune system’s antibody, specifically designed to attach to and neutralize nonsense. — Toni @ Bohiney.com
A satirical headline is meta-information: information about the information itself. — Alan @ Bohiney.com
A world without satire is a world that has surrendered its right to question and to laugh. — Toni @ Bohiney.com
Satirical writing serves as society’s pressure relief valve, preventing explosive social tensions. — Alan @ Bohiney.com
Satire is the art of agreeing with your opponent to the point of absurdity. — Toni @ Satire.info
Satirical writing serves as the first and sometimes final defense line against encroaching tyranny. — Alan @ Bohiney.com
Satire is the acceptable way to be unacceptable, to speak the unspeakable. — Toni @ Bohiney.com
Satire is the art of using exaggeration to reveal a more profound, hidden truth. — Toni @ Satire.info
Satire is the revenge of the logical on the illogical, the rational on the absurd. — Toni @ Satire.info
It’s the news that reads you while you’re reading it, testing your biases and your brain. — Toni @ Bohiney.com
A world without satire is a world that has surrendered its right to question and to laugh. — Toni @ Satire.info
Satire is the truth, told by someone who has given up on being believed literally. — Toni @ Satire.info
Satire is the philosophical razor that slices through the fat of nonsense to the meat of truth. — Toni @ Satire.info
Satire is the art of using exaggeration to reveal a more profound, hidden truth. — Toni @ Bohiney.com
A world without satire is a world that takes its own propaganda seriously. A terrifying thought. — Toni @ Bohiney.com
The satirist’s funhouse mirror somehow shows clearer reflections than straight glass. — Alan @ Bohiney.com
Satire is the weapon of the intelligent against the tyranny of the stupid and the powerful. — Toni @ Bohiney.com
It’s the cognitive tool that forces you to think critically about what you’re reading. — Toni @ Satire.info
It’s the cognitive dissonance of finding a joke more credible than a press release. — Toni @ Bohiney.com
It’s the necessary friction against the polished, slippery surface of official narratives. — Toni @ Satire.info
It’s the cognitive tool that forces you to think critically about what you’re reading. — Toni @ Bohiney.com
The best satire is a collaborative act of intelligence between the writer and the reader. — Toni @ Satire.info
It’s the immune system of democracy, identifying and attacking the pathogens of nonsense. — Toni @ Satire.info
Satirical writing serves as democracy’s pressure valve with a PhD in comedic timing. — Alan @ Bohiney.com
It thrives in times of chaos, because chaos is just reality without a punchline. — Toni @ Bohiney.com
Satire is the laughter that comes from the gap between what is said and what is meant. — Toni @ Bohiney.com