We're always hearing about risk-takers whose risks paid off, but they are no braver than those whose risks end in ridicule. — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
“all his life he had “endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice.” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“When you find yourself looking ridiculous, reasoning isn't worth a damn.” — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
We live in a culture where the truth claims of Christianity are not only rejected, they are ridiculed. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Not crazy are those souls who marvel at God's creation, but the ones who ridicule them.” — George Sorbane Copy Share Image
“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build… — Nicholas Klein Copy Share Image
In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale,… — Gene Spafford Copy Share Image
“When the British fleet patrolled the oceans and upheld Imperial Preference, and the King was the Emperor of India, an overfondness for… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Many things we accept as fact today were ridiculed and opposed in the not-too-distant past; this goes to show that just because… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Creativity requires taking what Einstein called 'a leap into the unknown.' This can mean putting your beliefs, reputation and resources on the… — Frank X. Barron Copy Share Image
Patriotism is a survival from barbarous times which must not only be evoked and educated but which must be eradicated by all… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think you can make fun of anything except things people can't help. They can't help their race or their sex or… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Fashion was the only law, pleasure the only pursuit, and the splendour of dress and furniture was the only distinction of the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A principle familiar to propagandists is that the doctrine to be instilled in the target audience should not be articulated: that would… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“If there is a person, place, or thing with which you do not agree, you attack it. If there is a religion… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Father was afraid of laughter and joy. He was particularly afraid of ridicule. He was afraid that someone would say that humans… — Guus Kuijer Copy Share Image
Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence.… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
As Eastern thought has begun to interest a significant number of people, and meditation is no longer viewed with ridicule or suspicion,… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
At the same time believers realise that the defects they see in one another are tests from Allah. For this reason they… — Harun Yahya Copy Share Image
When will you disembarrass yourselves of the lymphatic ideology of that deplorable Ruskin, which I would like to cover with so much… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
Some people are ignorant of the world but educated in Scripture, and are therefore prone to missing the relevance of Scripture -… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Chapter 4,‘Organised abuse and the pleasures of disbelief’, uses Zizek’s (1991) insights into cite political role of enjoyment to analyse the hyperbole… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Do not consider any act of service as demeaning. Sweeping the streets, for example, is not below your dignity. Do you not… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
A young financial writer once brought ridicule upon himself by stating that a certain company had nothing to commend it except excellent… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
“Blaming therapy, social work and other caring professions for the confabulation of testimony of 'satanic ritual abuse' legitimated a programme of political… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
It takes a pretty strong person, a rather unusual young person, to stand up to ridicule and refuse to give in to… — Robert L. Millet Copy Share Image
