The Tibetan missionaries in their mood of bright confidence disconcerted the imperial governments by laughing the new movement into frustration. For a… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
The media these days are not so much interested in saying things truthfully without distortion, without misrepresentation, without ridicule. — Gina Rinehart Copy Share Image
The most important point of [Susan] Fiske's work is that it provides a taxonomy for our differing feelings about different Thems -… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I think the Negro people should feel secure enough by now to face a reasonable ridicule without terror. I am unalterably opposed… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
The ridicule you may endure from others when you speak up for animals can help you to hone your skills, enabling you… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more… — John Jay Hooker Copy Share Image
Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Just take Germany and the suffering of Jews during and after the Second World War. It would be legal to ridicule and… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Very few women have become famous for being who they actually are, nuanced and imperfect. When honesty happens, it's usually couched in… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
There is going to come a day when everyone here is going to need keen observation and wit to ridicule George W.… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Treacherous assassins, enemies of the people, and worthy of everyone's ridicule are those who, under the pretext of guiding future generations, teach… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
“[Holy ridicule] does not mock the serious things of life, but rather people who take themselves too seriously--not God, but man's ecclesiastical… — Harry Boonstra Copy Share Image
Do you recall the laughter of the Philistines at the helpless Sampson? You can hear the echo of that laughter to-day, as… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
“No matter how many years go by, how many decades, how many centuries, there'll always be some people who'd call me a… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Unless people feel that they are accepted and that they have a right to express their feelings without fear of embarrassment or… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
There's no great person that lived that didn't go through scrutiny or ridicule and prosecution in all types of ways, to be… — Bernard Hopkins Copy Share Image
Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip… — Beverley Mitchell Copy Share Image
The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“He became an object of ridicule in 1993 when a paper published an intercepted phone call in which he told his lover… — Peter Graff Copy Share Image
I'm sure lots of people would love to ridicule me when I say this, but it is true: many people die from… — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
Don't fret, boy. I'm not so foolish as to ridicule the myths and legends of other people. For countless generations, people, no… — Nahoko Uehashi Copy Share Image
You can laugh at Christianity; you can mock and ridicule it. But it works. It changes lives. If you trust Christ, start… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
“A cultivated wit, one that badgers less, can persuade all the more. Artful ridicule can address contentious issues more competently and vigorously… — Horace Copy Share Image
I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write. The happiest period… — W. E. B. Griffin Copy Share Image
RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I long ago vowed, as Batman did before me, never to make fun of stuff that people couldn't help. Because it's (1)… — Paul F. Tompkins Copy Share Image
One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I love satire. Evelyn Waugh is one of my favorite writers of all time. He's hilarious. He's so wicked. He's so great.… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms… — David Denby Copy Share Image
I was a car journalist when I started on 'Top Gear.' It was all about cars. And then it all spun out… — James May Copy Share Image
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