When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve in domination. — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
“wanted to ridicule him for using chatspeak IRL, but I found myself lacking the energy.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nobody will be there for you in the making, but everybody will be there in the taking.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“You are a writer when your overwhelming need to tell a story outweighs your fear of ridicule.” — Julie Rodelli Copy Share Image
Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
“All the world's a rube, and he who tries to prove otherwise will be the first to wake onstage, victim of our… — Jedediah Berry Copy Share Image
Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“The time has passed when he was an object of ridicule, and it is no longer a mark of eccentricity to defend… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
All I got from van Looy and his cronies was ridicule, not one piece of help or advice. They were very unfair,… — Eddy Merckx Copy Share Image
When adults first become conscious of something new, they usually either attack or try to escape from it ... Attack includes such… — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge Copy Share Image
Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Sadly, our values are fast eroding. Modesty and honesty are ridiculed. Deception and cheating are on the rise. May the Almighty protect… — Mufti Ismail Menk Copy Share Image
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Imagine a person with a gift of ridicule [He might say] First that a negative quantity has no logarithm; secondly that a… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap on through 'opinions' and sometimes though ridicule, which is meant… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Forging differs from hoaxing, inasmuch as in the later the deceit is intended to last for a time, and then be discovered,… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel… — L. Lionel Kendrick Copy Share Image
But if Christianity really gives peace, and we really want peace, patriotism is a survival from barbarous times, which must not only… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The reaction we should be having to [rich liberals] is not ridicule, but rather self-criticism. Why aren't we organizing them? I mean,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I grew up with such mixed feelings about LA, but I do love it. I grew up lectured by Woody Allen, for… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
The media these days are not so much interested in saying things truthfully without distortion, without misrepresentation, without ridicule. — Gina Rinehart Copy Share Image
The most important point of [Susan] Fiske's work is that it provides a taxonomy for our differing feelings about different Thems -… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I have to admit that I was terrified of ending the book, precisely because I go around saying about pretty much every… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Some are wandering into forbidden paths because they are seeking popularity with their peers, even to the extent of doing things they… — Nathan Eldon Tanner Copy Share Image
The Tibetan missionaries in their mood of bright confidence disconcerted the imperial governments by laughing the new movement into frustration. For a… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their… — David Icke Copy Share Image
Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more… — John Jay Hooker Copy Share Image
But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Unless people feel that they are accepted and that they have a right to express their feelings without fear of embarrassment or… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“Ironically, I am reliably informed that Michael McIntyre doesn't actually have a "man drawer", and invented the concept in order to ridicule… — Stewart Lee Copy Share Image
Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
There's no great person that lived that didn't go through scrutiny or ridicule and prosecution in all types of ways, to be… — Bernard Hopkins Copy Share Image