Quotes About Ridicule

I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.

We laugh at sheep because sheep just follow the one in front. We humans have out-sheeped the sheep, because at least the sheep need a sheep dog to keep them in line. Humans keep each other in line. And they do it by ridiculing or condemning anyone who commits the crime, and that's what it's become, of being different.

One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished it in a marked manner

An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

People of faith find themselves marginalized and ridiculed. In a nation where our coins carry the motto, 'In God We Trust...'

We are afraid of failure, of ridicule, of being rejected. We are afraid we're not good enough.

The Tibetan missionaries in their mood of bright confidence disconcerted the imperial governments by laughing the new movement into frustration. For a sham faith cannot stand ridicule.

If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

The best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents.

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

Humor is when the joke's on you but hits the other fellow first -- before it boomerangs.

It's a basic rule of humor that a joke is always at somebody's expense. Really good jokes, however, tend to be at everyone's expense.

He who does not like you will defame you in jest.

Most people with new ideas are ridiculed … until they succeed!

Anyone of their age had already spent years in the Hitler Youth being trained to ridicule, taunt, and bully,

In my professional life, by contrast, I became a rebel and a game-changer. In my scholarly work I took controversial positions that exposed me to attack and ridicule, something which I both feared and enjoyed.

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

Agenouillés, ils étaient ridicules, ils étaient fiers et beaux, et vivre était sublime.

El, în definitiv, nu reuÈ™ea decât s? stârneasc? ilaritate: È™i nu È™tia s? fac? asta decât luând în batjocur? anumite lucruri. Iar aceste lucruri, din întâmplare, erau tocmai acelea pe care nu reuÈ™ise s? le aib? în via??.

All fools have still an itching to deride

What provokes particular outrage and ridicule is the idea that children might feel good about themselves in the absence of impressive accomplishments, even though, as I'll show, studies find that unconditional self-esteem is a key component of psychological health.

The whole notion of owning a person is so ludicrous, there's plenty of room to make fun.