Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule. — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
“Don't cry for someone who would love smiling when your tears are flowing.” — Michael Bassey Johnson 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
“The integration of mothers and babies into public life was viewed with ridicule and alarm in many societies.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
The popular culture still ridicules religion and often treats it like the plague. — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
An error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing something wrong. — Marva Collins 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
Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
“All the world's a rube, and he who tries to prove otherwise will be the first to wake onstage, victim of our… — Jedediah Berry 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
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
The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist in which honest police officers can act without fear of ridicule or… — Frank Serpico Copy Share Image
When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
When people can't use you, they ridicule what you represent. I was lucky that I understood that, because when one does not… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or… — Matt Bomer 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
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them;… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Many will tell you with mockery and ridicule that the abolition of war can only be a dream . . . But… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“..en av os bondestudenter som er blit skadet indvortes ved å bli overflyttet til fremmed jord og atmosfære, han er en liten… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
...it is presumptuous ridicule of God if someone thinks that only the person who desires great wealth chooses mammon. Alas, the person… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Let us not become so intense in our zeal to do good by winning arguments or by our pure intention in disputing… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and… — Samuel Johnson 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
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
“All of this evokes the dicta of successful historic propagandists described earlier. From Alinsky's Rules for Radicals: >"Ridicule is man's most potent… — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but… — Samuel Johnson 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
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
“Altho' I rarely waste time in reading on theological subjects, as mangled by our Pseudo-Christians, yet I can readily suppose Basanistos may… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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