The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt, and I claim that right. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Anyone who attempts anything original in the world must expect a bit of ridicule. — Alberto Juantorena Copy Share Image
People will laugh at your dreams then hate you when you make then come true. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I'm always eager to respond to human curiosity, but I have no time to entertain ape gossip.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Natural dignity of mind or manners can never be concealed; it ever commands our respect: assumed dignity, or importance, excites our ridicule… — Joseph R. Bartlett Copy Share Image
So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of… — Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
Come let us mock at the good That fancied goodness might be gay, And sick of solitude Might proclaim a holiday: Wind… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Europeans ridicule Muslim culture because they don't understand the wisdom behind it. Take swine flu for instance: all the sudden you've got… — Riaad Moosa Copy Share Image
It is one thing to teach a dynamic Oriental philosophy and religious code; it is quite another to put such a discipline… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We have to be a little cautious about not trying to kill a gnat with an atom bomb. The performances are so… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Nowhere is one more alone than in Paris ... and yet surrounded by crowds. Nowhere is one more likely to incur greater… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
Sorry means you leave yourself open, to embrace or to ridicule or to revenge. Sorry is a question that begs forgiveness, because… — Craig Silvey Copy Share Image
It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The Gospels record that nearly everywhere the Savior went, He was surrounded by multitudes of people. Some hoped that He would heal… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what word we use, if it has the same content, it will be treated in the same way. There… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I know the Muslim psychology. It is all pomposity and bravado. I give you my word that if Islam is ridiculed publicly… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
If we have to get married and have a million babies, I hope our relationship will be built on mutual disgust and… — Michael Buckley Copy Share Image
It would be rare to find a woman who hadn't endured some kind of ridicule for stepping out of line. When the… — Clementine Ford Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
... the understatement, the self-ridicule, the delight in the foreignness of foreigners, the complete denial of any attempt to enlist the sympathies… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In much of today's popular culture, the virtues of forgiveness and kindness are belittled, while ridicule, anger, and harsh criticism are encouraged.… — David E. Sorensen Copy Share Image
Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Take, for example, there is a right-wing populist uprising. It's very common, even on the left, to just ridicule them, but that's… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People who are pierced should not be snickered at, should not become the object of ridicule, should not be singled out for… — Gloria Allred Copy Share Image
All of Creation’s a farce. Man was born as a joke. In his head his reason is buffeted Like wind-blown smoke. Life… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Whatever, bro. We both had a long day. Too much drama. I'll TTYS." I wanted to ridicule him for using chatspeak IRL,… — John Green Copy Share Image
Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not… — Henry Ward Beecher 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
Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
We must be able to deal with ridicule and scorn, which it always seems that Buddhists receive. But we feel that it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
