Silence can mock.

My hero among heroes is my grandmother, she's the epitome of strength and I try to mock that strength all the time. She's a…

— Aeriel Miranda

In our day, you can mock religion in public and even get funds for doing it. But you can't show respect for religion in…

— Charles Colson

“If the law does not do justice, the people will mock the law.”

— Sheri S. Tepper

The black arrowed swoop of the moment swung high into the unceilinged future, ten, fifty, sixty years, may be: then, past seeing, up to…

— Eric Rucker Eddison

“Doubt not the self O lion-heart, for those who call you crazy will one day worship you.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“He who makes fun of a short and fat man’s weight is much less cruel than he who makes fun of his height.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Africans sensed in their hearts that Jesus did not mock their respect for the sacred or their clamor for an invincible Savior, so they…

— Lamin Sanneh

Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

During a mock battle attended by President Warren Harding in 1921, Marine Corps General Smedley D. Butler exhumed the arm [of Stonewall Jackson; he…

— Tony Horwitz

O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I mock at the pride of Greece and Rome; And when I am stretch'd beneath…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to negotiate remarkably…

— Raquel Cepeda

All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.

— Anna Quindlen

When in doubt, mock the powerful, not the powerless.

— Jon Lovett

“It can be so difficult to train up the peasants,” she said, pretending to commiserate, her voice heavy with irony. “They find it so…

— Caitlin Crews

The gospel has but a forced alliance with war. Its doctrine of human brotherhood would ring strangely between the opposed ranks. The bellowing speech…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin