A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Society WORSHIPS those that are beautiful and PUTS DOWN those who aren't. If you don't see a problem with this you're a… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
When I look at you, all I can do is say to myself is, How did someone so sweet become a jerk?… — Emma Hampton Copy Share Image
I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion's tail hidden in his words. He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“Millions cheer the warrior spilling blood across the ring while the one who stands for peace is ridiculed and shamed. Must hearts… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it,… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
It is not possible in this culture today to hold up to public pillory and ridicule any group - whether blacks, American… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
At heart, he could not abide sense in women: he liked to see them as silly, as light-headed, as vain, as open… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The millions of human beings who were shot, tortured, starved, treated like animals and made the object of a conspiracy of ridicule,… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
Pop music can somehow survive being inhibited and mangled by its harsh and stupid commercial chains, and there is surely irreducible potential… — Paul Morley Copy Share Image
To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the… — Vissarion Belinsky Copy Share Image
There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As to rocket ships flying between America and Europe, I believe it is worth seriously trying for. Thirty years ago persons who… — Auguste Piccard Copy Share Image
The sentimentality that people see and hear in my commentary and sometimes ridicule, parody or just don't like - that's okay. We're… — Jim Nantz Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. Certainly he ought not so… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I do not mean to mock or ridicule your life's work, for in one way at least it mimics my own: We… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
We need to make fun of and ridicule the media images that seek to keep us down, divide us against each other… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
“And if we do speak out, we risk rejection and ridicule. I had a best friend once, the kind that you go… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
It would be rare to find a woman who hadn't endured some kind of ridicule for stepping out of line. When the… — Clementine Ford Copy Share Image
If we have to get married and have a million babies, I hope our relationship will be built on mutual disgust and… — Michael Buckley Copy Share Image
Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires… — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
Everybody has same or the other weakness. This eis also a a general tendency to conceal theee weaknesses. For people may not… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
People who mock rap and say, "I don't like it," they should go and check out Kanye [West] in the studio rapping,… — Elton John Copy Share Image
It is time for the truth to be brought out... Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the… — Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter Copy Share Image
Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
The raillery which is consistent with good-breeding is a gentle animadversion of some foible, which, while it raises the laugh in the… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
The reason it is difficult is that we have been conditioned to laugh at conspiracy theories, and few people will risk public… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
An effort to declare the ban on contraception ‘infallible’ would have the immediate effect of focusing Catholic dissent on the doctrine of… — Rosemary Radford Ruether Copy Share Image
It is said that ridicule is the test of truth; but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
When superior people hear of the Way, they carry it out with diligence. When middling people hear of the Way, it sometimes… — Laozi Copy Share Image
I feel most people’s sexuality is enormously complicated. That’s what it means to be human. Wouldn’t it be great if we honored… — Janet Jackson Copy Share Image
All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Let us not become so intense in our zeal to do good by winning arguments or by our pure intention in disputing… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
...it is presumptuous ridicule of God if someone thinks that only the person who desires great wealth chooses mammon. Alas, the person… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“..en av os bondestudenter som er blit skadet indvortes ved å bli overflyttet til fremmed jord og atmosfære, han er en liten… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image