Ridicule Quotes
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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
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The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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In the '60s, to say this obvious fact that women were treated unequally was to make yourself the object of scorn and ridicule.
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All of Creation’s a farce. Man was born as a joke. In his head his reason is buffeted Like wind-blown smoke. Life is a game. Everyone ridicules everyone else. But he who has the last laugh Laughs longest.
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I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write. The happiest period of my life is when I was writing the sequels to "MASH". I was able to ridicule everyone.
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I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.
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Many men ridicule the idea that it can be scientifically handled. They tell us the unemployed have always been with us, and always must be. It is the oldest reason in the world for tolerating injustice and misery.
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My childhood was extremely lonely. I was dyslexic and lots of kids make fun of me. That experience made me tough inside, because you learn to quietly accept ridicule.
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Once you identify yourself as believing something, you open yourself to ridicule.
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There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.
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Soul-directed events defy logic and ridicule reason.
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Ridicule is the deadliest weapon of the age.
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Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.
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If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.
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Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.
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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
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Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents.
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If there's anything intolerance can't tolerate, it's ridicule!
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I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.
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Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.
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In the gospel of Jesus Christ, there is no place for ridicule, bullying, or bigotry.
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To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
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To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. [Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.]
