Ridicule Quotes - Page 10

• The disciples had nothing to gain by lying and starting a new religion. They faced hardship, ridicule, hostility, and martyr's deaths. In light of this, they could never have sustained such unwavering motivation if they knew what they were preaching was a lie. The disciples were not fools and Paul was a cool-headed intellectual of the first rank. There would have been several opportunities over three to four decades of ministry to reconsider and renounce a lie.

  J.P. Moreland

  Motivation, Lying, Opportunity

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• Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Funeral, Sorrow

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• We may observe in humorous authors that the faults they chiefly ridicule have often a likeness in themselves. Cervantes had much of the knight-errant in him; Sir George Etherege was unconsciously the Fopling Flutter of his own satire; Goldsmith was the same hero to chambermaids, and coward to ladies that he has immortalized in his charming comedy; and the antiquarian frivolities of Jonathan Oldbuck had their resemblance in Jonathan Oldbuck's creator.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Hero, Humorous, Knights

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• Never yield to that temptation, which, to most young men, is very strong, of exposing other people's weaknesses and infirmities, for the sake either of diverting the company, or of showing your own superiority. You may get the laugh on your side by it for the present; but you will make enemies by it for ever; and even those who laugh with you then, will, upon reflection, fear, and consequently hate you.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Strong, Hate, Reflection

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.93, Oxford University Press

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• Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Real, Dignity, Disadvantages

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.250, Wildside Press LLC

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• If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Prayer, School, Ifs

  Boyd K. Packer (1975). “Teach Ye Diligently”

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• It is not possible in this culture today to hold up to public pillory and ridicule any group - whether blacks, American Indians, women, homosexuals, Poles, or any of a number of other groups that have been discriminated against in the past. However, the one group you can hold up to public mockery and pillory without fear of reprisal is evangelical Christians.

  Michael Novak

  Christian, Religious, Past

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• Increasingly, Christianity is the object of scorn and ridicule.

  David R. Mains

  Christian, Religious, Scorn

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• Christians are the only group Hollywood can offend with impunity, the only creed it actually goes out of its way to insult... The tenets of Christianity are regularly held up to ridicule.

  Don Feder

  Christian, Religious, Way

  Don Feder (1993). “A Jewish conservative looks at pagan America”, Vital Issues Pr

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• Many will tell you with mockery and ridicule that the abolition of war can only be a dream . . . But we must go on or we will all go under. And the great criticism that can be made is that the world lacks a plan that will enable us to go on . . . We must have sufficient imagination and courage to translate the universal wish for peace - which is rapidly becoming a universal necessity - into actuality.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Dream, War, Imagination

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• One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.

  Moliere

  Bears, Moral, Satire

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• Now, there are two ways to approach a subject that frightens you and makes you feel stupid: you can embrace it with humility and an open mind, or you can ridicule it mercilessly.

  Judith Stone

  Stupid, Learning, Ignorance

  Judith Stone (1991). “Light Elements: Essays in Science from Gravity to Levity”, Ballantine Books

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• To place your dreams before the crowd is to risk ridicule. To go forward in the face of overwhelming odds is to risk failure. But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing.

  Rene Carayol

  Dream, Taken, Odds

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• The world in which we live would benefit greatly if men and women everywhere would exercise the pure love of Christ, which is kind, meek, and lowly. It is without envy or pride. It is selfless because it seeks nothing in return. It does not countenance evil or ill will, nor rejoice in iniquity; it has no place for bigotry, hatred, or violence. It refuses to condone ridicule, vulgarity, abuse, or ostracism. It encourages diverse people to live together in Christian love regardless of religious belief, race, nationality, financial standing, education, or culture.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Christian, Religious, Pride

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• Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Chess, Talent, Young

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• Some are wandering into forbidden paths because they are seeking popularity with their peers, even to the extent of doing things they know are wrong. They cannot stand criticism or ridicule and will not take a firm stand against wrongdoing.

  Nathan Eldon Tanner

  Criticism, Path, Peers

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• I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule. Clarence Birdseye

  Mark Kurlansky

  Bird, World, Realizing

  Mark Kurlansky (2012). “Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man”, p.42, Anchor

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• It doesn't matter what word we use, if it has the same content, it will be treated in the same way. There are other words - there's "womanist," there's "mujerista," there's "women's liberationist" - all mean the same thing and they get the same ridicule. I think we just need to choose what word we feel comfortable with that says women are full human beings, and whatever that word is, it will get a lot of opposition. But it will also attract a lot of support. But this is a revolution, not a public relations movement.

  Gloria Steinem

  Strong Women, Mean, Thinking

  "Celebrating Gloria Steinem’s 80th Birthday" by Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2014.

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• Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed.

  Immanuel Kant

  Indulge In, Important, Atheism

  " A New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles from Ancient and Modern Sources" by H. L. Mencken, (p. 1017), 1946.

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• An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. Certainly he ought not so to act that laws become necessary to keep him from being laughed at. No one thinks of protecting Shakespeare from ridicule, by the threat of fine and imprisonment.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Thinking, Law, Able

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.312, Library of Alexandria

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• Father was afraid of laughter and joy. He was particularly afraid of ridicule. He was afraid that someone would say that humans are descended from apes. Or that the earth is much older than four thousand years. Or that someone would ask where Noah go his polar bears from. Or that someone would swear. Father was terrified.

  Guus Kuijer

  Laughter, Fear, Father

  Guus Kuijer (2012). “The Book of Everything”, p.77, Scholastic Inc.

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• The function of education has never been to free the mind and the spirit of man, but to bind them; and to the end that the mind and spirit of his children should never escape, Homo Sapiens has employed praise, ridicule, admonition, accusation, mutilation, and even torture to chain them to the culture pattern.

  Jules Henry

  Children, Freedom, Men

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• We must honor our dragons, encourage them to be worthy destroyers, expect they'll strive to cut us down. It is their duty to ridicule us, it is their job to demean us, to force us if they can to stop being different! And when we walk our way no matter their fire and their fury, our dragons shrug when we're out of sight, return to their card-games philosophical: 'Ah well, we can't toast 'em all...'

  Richard Bach

  Jobs, Philosophical, Cutting

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• Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)

  Saul Alinsky

  Hurt, Cutting, People

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• It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Fool, Sides, Wealth

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