The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
There are men that are birds, and their raiment is trembling feathers, for they show their souls to everyone and everything that… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on. That cuckold lives… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We're looking at such enormous complexity and variety that it makes a mockery of "celebrating diversity." In the L.A. of the future,… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Hollywood is still the cradle of many myths, including the one of eternal youth. I find it odd that the very notion… — Anne Fontaine Copy Share Image
The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
While it is almost certainly true that leaders ought to eat last, the evidence on the ever-widening difference between CEO and average… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
You have not known what you are--you have slumber'd upon yourself all your life; Your eye-lids have been the same as closed… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
We discover that we do not know our role; we look for a mirror; we want to remove our make-up and take… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
But really it’s condescending and patronizing not to make fun of someone because they’re old or stupid or crippled or morbidly obese.… — Paul Neilan Copy Share Image
Then what is magic for?" Prince Lír demanded wildly. "What use is wizardry if it cannot save a unicorn?" He gripped the… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
I think the tone of mockery Heller finds is a part of Mann's irony, but only a part - a brilliant further… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Surely binationalism is not love, but there is, we might say, a necessary and impossible attachment that makes a mockery of identity,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Trump has been fiercely mocked in the media since the 1980s. But Trump learned from someone to let all the mockery roll… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
We live in an age in which only one prejudice is tolerated - anti-Christian bigotry... Today, the only group you can hold… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
I think by all accounts in the same way we look back on the anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish sentiments of our history with… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When we ask Negroes to abide by the law, let us also declare that the white man does not abide by law… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Tobias," I say anyway. My hands shake, but not from fear this time– from anger. "Where is he? What are you doing… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Our lazy embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards. We have come to accept coy… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and then watching to see how… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“For God's sake!" Hart sprang to his feet. Everyone at the table stopped and stared at him, including Ian. "Do I have… — Jennifer Ashley Copy Share Image
She had never realized any love save love as passion. Such love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
