Ridicule Quotes · Page 6

It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.

— Albert Schweitzer

“When you find yourself looking ridiculous, reasoning isn't worth a damn.”

— Osamu Dazai

We live in a culture where the truth claims of Christianity are not only rejected, they are ridiculed.

— R. C. Sproul

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

“all his life he had “endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.

— Saul Alinsky

Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Before you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be train spotting may actually be writing poetry.

— John Hegley

Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th…

— Paul Fry

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

We have to be a little cautious about not trying to kill a gnat with an atom bomb. The performances are so…

— Noam Chomsky

Nowhere is one more alone than in Paris ... and yet surrounded by crowds. Nowhere is one more likely to incur greater…

— Marguerite Duras

It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the…

— Dwight Schultz

Advanced engineering always, like advanced everything else, brings down upon it the discredit of ridicule of minds who cannot see so far.

— Alfred P. Sloan

It is one thing to teach a dynamic Oriental philosophy and religious code; it is quite another to put such a discipline…

— Frederick Lenz

People ridicule you for the silliest thing, like what you wore to an event. At the end of the day, I'm just…

— Travie McCoy

The left wants to transform America away from founding ideals, and this is it. And they know it. And they're doing everything…

— Rush Limbaugh

I know the Muslim psychology. It is all pomposity and bravado. I give you my word that if Islam is ridiculed publicly…

— Ali Sina

We may observe in humorous authors that the faults they chiefly ridicule have often a likeness in themselves. Cervantes had much of…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

There's an internal coherence and logic to what they get from [Rush] Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and the rest of these guys. And…

— Noam Chomsky

Prophets of doom have always taken risks in terms of ridicule and humiliation. If you stand on a street corner holding up…

— Robert Kiyosaki

“I have spoken of Jonah, and of the story of him and the whale. — A fit story for ridicule, if it…

— Thomas Paine

We must honor our dragons, encourage them to be worthy destroyers, expect they'll strive to cut us down. It is their duty…

— Richard Bach

Have charity; have patience; have mercy. Never bring a human being, however silly, ignorant, or weak--above all, any little child--to shame and…

— Charles Kingsley

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

— John Stuart Mill

The wound caused by fire heals in its time but the burn inflicted by an inflamed tongue never heals.

— Anonymous

Logic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole foolishness of logic.

— Rajneesh

Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.

— Al Franken

Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.

— Horace

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

— Joseph Addison

“-but the point is, when you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take the responsibility when other people act on…

— Jay Asher

To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

— William Blake

Never laugh at someone's fall when you are yet to reach the end of your walk.

— Terry Mark

When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?

— Glenn Beck

While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.

— Isak Dinesen

Nobody can make a monkey out of anyone who isn't a monkey to start with.

— Esther Forbes

“Always laugh when mediocre minds makes fun of you, for in your grieve, the ridicule is having an effect”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

When did it become something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?

— Glenn Beck

Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him.

— Helmut Schoeck

When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve in domination.

— Sheila Rowbotham