Ridicule Quotes
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"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."(Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767)"
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."[Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)]"
"The devil's happy when the critics run you off."
"It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack, counter-argument, and retort...only to find a big bear hug coming his way."
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.", May 16, 1767)"
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." (1794)]"
Edmund Burke, On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters
"Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth."
"Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most people aren't so bad once you sit down and have an honest, one-on-one conversation with them, once, with an open heart, you listen to their explanations as to why they act the way they act, or say what they say, or do what they do."
"When I was young, I thought I was a bird at one time. Then they told me I can't fly, so I stopped flying."
"I don't ridicule religion, it ridicules itself."
"Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice."
"Unlike the world that points out your flaws to ridicule you, when GOD points out your flaws, it's because He want to walk you out of it."
"Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridiculed and shamed.Must hearts forever sufferfrom ignorance and greed?Can bombs heal our soulsor set our spirits free?"
"The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of"
"You can spit on a rose, but it's still a rose."
"Sarcasm is waster on the young."
"Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody."
"When men allow other people to ridicule, laugh and jeer at the truth, that cannot but bring sorrow to the heart of God"
"Unlike the world that points out your flaws to ridicule you, when GOD point out your flaws, it's because He want to walk you out of it."
"Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being."
"A lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"It is very normal for one ugly weed to not want to stand alone."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book."
"Some skeptics believe religious people are religious because they fear Hell. It's about as fair as saying skeptics are skeptics because they fear the ridicule of modern society."
"The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the ones who feed off of opposition and negative feedback and manage to continue along with a healthy ambition. It is the crazy that teaches us to use our gifts wisely and own all the attackers."
"As for those who spite you, and seemingly just because, it's only evident that they're learning from you. Maybe you taste bad - kind of like medicine, kind of like truth - and to them, you're thought unsafe. There is flattery in being chewed out and spit up. Humans have always had a hard time digesting foreign things."
"A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin."
"Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of imagination. It binds us where we should be free."
Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
"You can cease to be influenced by people who tease you... Just neglect their helps and elevate your steps... You can do it!"
"There goes the girl with the wings," they say. "The damned dreamer with her eyes shut to the world.""There goes the misguided soul with her heart buried in the ground."They taunt. They lie. They lie. THEY LIE.I don't pretend to understand life. THEY LIE."
"Indeed, not all attacks—especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin—are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are."
"We must be passionate and controlled but not reckless. Truth is not established by shame, guilt, or coercion or tribalism. It must be established by reason, evidence, presentation, compassion, and yes, faith. It cannot be established by ridicule, mocking, or insults of sacred icons or traditions but by disproving them or establishing their lack or veracity or usefulness."
"My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither."
"So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and then another one next to it. "So why wouldn't you want to join the ranks of the ridiculed?"
"Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away."
"ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial."
"Ignore the voice that scorns and ridicules to ensure it does not mold you. Stifling subtleties like these, if unchecked, are oppressive. Freedom is a love supreme birthright, not a privilege to be governed by any other."
"And if we do speak out, we risk rejection and ridicule. I had a best friend once, the kind that you go shopping with and watch films with, the kind you go on holiday with and rescue when her car breaks down on the A1. Shortly after my diagnosis, I told her I had DID. I haven't seen her since. The stench and rankness of a socially unacceptable mental health disorder seems to have driven her away."
Carolyn Spring, Living with the Reality of Dissociative Identity Disorder: Campaigning Voices
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God grante"
"Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions."
"When you find yourself looking ridiculous, reasoning isn't worth a damn."
"Don't cry for someone who would love smiling when your tears are flowing."
"I have spoken of Jonah, and of the story of him and the whale. — A fit story for ridicule, if it was written to be believed; or of laughter, if it was intended to try what credulity could swallow; for, if it could swallow Jonah and the whale it could swallow anything."
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the"
Edmund Burke, On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters
"He who makes fun of a short and fat man’s weight is much less cruel than he who makes fun of his height."
"Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us."