“...when you hold people up for ridicule, you have the responsibility when other people act on it" -Hannah” — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
Calling out someone's sexuality to ridicule them is not funny nor a way to win an argument. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Sharing is an act of trust, for ridicule is an ever-present risk on the Internet today.” — George Takei Copy Share Image
Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“It is usually considered good practice to examine a thing for one's self before echoing the vulgar ridicule of it.” — J. Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject… — Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
To place your dreams before the crowd is to risk ridicule. To go forward in the face of overwhelming odds is to… — Rene Carayol Copy Share Image
We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third,… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at -… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be;… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
The function of education has never been to free the mind and the spirit of man, but to bind them; and to… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
Cults and prophets proclaiming the imminent end of the world have been with us for several millennia, and it has been another… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to destroy Islam. Islam is the pumped up ego of a megalomaniac psychopath. Muhammad was a narcissist madman.… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
I've often been asked what drives me, particularly through the last 50 years of abuse, and ridicule. What has kept me going… — Allan Savory 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
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
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
What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents. — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
Periods are ridiculous I shouldnt be punished for not getting pregnant. — Marioly Guzman Copy Share Image
Sometimes it seems to me that the celebration of a person is really just a prelude to ridicule. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
What does annoy me is when critics use me to ridicule my audience. All the stuff about 'Tesco housewives' and 'the blue-rinse… — Michael Ball Copy Share Image
A law which attempts to say you can criticise and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
The popular culture still ridicules religion and often treats it like the plague. — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
“when you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it. Later” — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
An error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing something wrong. — Marva Collins Copy Share Image
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Give yourself a pat on the back for getting mocked by those who have never tried their hands at anything.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
In modern America, Judeo-Christian beliefs are often held up to ridicule and disdain by the media. — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Don't cry for someone who would love smiling when your tears are flowing.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
No matter which word it is, when I pronounce repeatedly, it ends up sounding utterly ridiculous and meaningless to me. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
