“On a social level, secularism is safe. As literally the world's most fundamental conformist, the secularist wants to call himself a revolutionary… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule. — Al Franken Copy Share Image
A refugee is not just someone lacking in money and everything else. A refugee is vulnerable to the slightest touch: he has… — Maria Franziska von Trapp Copy Share Image
Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." [Preface… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
True devotion must not get dispirited; nor elated or satisfied with lesser gains; it must fight against failure, loss, calumny, calamity, ridicule… — Sathya Sai Baba 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
We are afraid of failure, of ridicule, of being rejected. We are afraid we’re not good enough. — Rhonda Britten Copy Share Image
When there are legitimate concerns and frustrations it is never cool to marginalise and ridicule the people who have those concerns. — James Cleverly Copy Share Image
If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon 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
Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I… — Arthur Bremer Copy Share Image
“There goes the girl with the wings," they say. "The damned dreamer with her eyes shut to the world." "There goes the… — Nadège Richards Copy Share Image
Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Young men, terminate, I beseech you, in your own experience, the sad divorce which has too often existed between intellect and piety.… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
As a guy develops and practices his masculinity, he is accompanied by an invisible male chorus of all the other guys, who… — Frank Pittman 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
To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule. — Lord Chesterfield 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
Logic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole foolishness of logic. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image