Mockery Quotes

136 quotes by 121 authors

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger… — Lewis Carroll
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that they are man… — Christopher Hitchens
Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled underfoot… — Mark the Evangelist
You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values. — Bill Ayers
Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery. — William Shakespeare
Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us. — John Updike
See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds… — John F. Kennedy
It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of… — Muriel Spark
Socrates dies with honor, surrounded by his disciples listening to the most tender words -the easiest death that one could wish to die. Jesus dies… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense - the… — William Borah
I am afraid that it would be a mockery of justice if the death penalty is not imposed. And therefore I pleaded that there are… — Ujjwal Nikam
When in Gregg v. Georgia the Supreme Court gave its seal of approval to capital punishment, this endorsement was premised on the promise that capital… — Thurgood Marshall
Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery… — John Ruskin
I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery. — Ana Gasteyer
But Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of the… — Adolf Hitler
The internet wasn't created for mockery, it was supposed to help researchers at different universities share data sets. It was! — Homer
Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world. — Helen Keller
What all this tells me is that a large proportion of the people in positions of power across Australia - politicians and media pundits included… — Clementine Ford

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