Mock Quote by Simon Blackburn Download Open image “Why should thinkers mock the simple pieties of the people?” — Simon Blackburn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mock People Piety Should Simple Thinker
It's certainly easy to mock some things ... Oddly enough though I've never found it easy to mock anything of value. Only things that… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Mockery is an important social tool for squelching stupidity. I’ve never seen anyone change his mind because of the power of a superior argument… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“Mockers are cynical, critical, condescending, and controlling. You always feel off balance around them. You never know where you stand. They always try to… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
When the task is mocking pop culture, it's easy to make sarcastic comments and consider the job done. After a while, I began to… — Paul F. Tompkins Copy Share Image
It's sort of like a mockery in a way of reality because they think everything is smiles and sweetness and flowers when there is… — Edie Sedgwick Copy Share Image
“When a human being develops an argument, when a human being attempts not only to think but to speak with precision, he or she… — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
I never knew a mocker who was not mocked, a deceiver who was not deceived, or a proud man who was not humbled. — Marguerite de Navarre Copy Share Image
I have often come across convinced adepts of Greek mythology who mock our faith under the pretext that we do not say anything else… — Theodoret Copy Share Image
You can still have comedy which is sensitive to the topic, where you're laughing at the right part of it, you're not mocking the… — Rachel Parris Copy Share Image
Satirical writers and speakers are not half so clever as they think themselves, nor as they are thought to be. They do winnow the… — James Sharp Copy Share Image
“seperate morality from its effects, and you will see that everyone regards ias a nuisance, an annoying brake on their freedom of action.” — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles. — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
The absolutist takes himself to speak to the ages, with the tongue of angels, but the relativist hears only one version among others, the… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
When the hoary old question of nature versus nurture comes around, sides form quickly. — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
It can seem an amazing fact that laws of nature keep on holding, that the frame of nature does not fall apart. — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
“Someone sitting on a completely unreasonable belief is sitting on a time bomb. The apparently harmless, idiosyncratic belief of the Catholic Church that one… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
Paradigms can be asked to show their worth, an some of them do not stand up. — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
“It is the thought that the least efficient way of of finding either happiness or pleasure is to pursue them. Put in terms of… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and we hear… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
The fantasist in whom the reality barrier has broken down is unreliable, believing things when he should not, and telling things as true when… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
This doctrine, that of the ghost in the machine, strictly separates the mind or soul from the body. And by doing so it takes… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
My hero among heroes is my grandmother, she's the epitome of strength and I try to mock that strength all the time. She's a… — Aeriel Miranda Copy Share Image
“It can be so difficult to train up the peasants,” she said, pretending to commiserate, her voice heavy with irony. “They find it so… — Caitlin Crews Copy Share Image
All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to negotiate remarkably… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I mock at the pride of Greece and Rome; And when I am stretch'd beneath… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
During a mock battle attended by President Warren Harding in 1921, Marine Corps General Smedley D. Butler exhumed the arm [of Stonewall Jackson; he… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Africans sensed in their hearts that Jesus did not mock their respect for the sacred or their clamor for an invincible Savior, so they… — Lamin Sanneh Copy Share Image
“He who makes fun of a short and fat man’s weight is much less cruel than he who makes fun of his height.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Doubt not the self O lion-heart, for those who call you crazy will one day worship you.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The black arrowed swoop of the moment swung high into the unceilinged future, ten, fifty, sixty years, may be: then, past seeing, up to… — Eric Rucker Eddison Copy Share Image
