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• Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule.
  [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se
  Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]

  Juvenal

  Men, Poverty, Trials

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• When we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear. But we have also an unconquerable faith in our own stars, and in the impossibility of anything venturing to go against us. As we grow old we slowly come to believe that everything will turn out badly for us, and that failure is in the nature of things, but then we do not much mind what happens to us one way or the other. In this way a balance is obtained.

  Isak Dinesen

  Stars, Believe, Ideas

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• We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or an equal. Hence ridicule is sure to prevail over truth, for the malice of mankind, thrown into the scale, gives the casting weight.

  William Hazlitt

  Giving, Envy, Weight

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• 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.

  Criss Jami

  Counter Attack, Feet, Hug

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.108, Criss Jami

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• When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.

  Madame de Stael

  Enthusiasm, Undone, Money And Power

  "Corinne, or Italy". Book by Madame de Stael, 1807.

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• Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and ridicule of their rivals.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Abuse, Rivals, May

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.53

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• I recall an incident involving the late George Stigler at a conference in Spain in the 1980s. Hearing that I had written a book on reason and natural law, Stigler started to ridicule reason, going so far as to say that there is as much reason in a monkey's antics as in any human act. At that point I asked him whether he was trying to tell me something about how he wrote his books; he gave me a blank stare and stormed out of the room.

  Frank Van Dun

  Book, Law, Trying

  "Argumentation Ethics and The Philosophy of Freedom". mises.org. March 13, 2009.

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• I think the Negro people should feel secure enough by now to face a reasonable ridicule without terror. I am unalterably opposed to all efforts to put down free speech, whatever the excuse.

  H. L. Mencken

  Thinking, Racism, People

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• There's no great person that lived that didn't go through scrutiny or ridicule and prosecution in all types of ways, to be who they are in history.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Motivation, Way, Fighter

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• The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Passion, Heart, Mind

  Ann Radcliffe (1795). “The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry”, p.132

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• I'd rather be done any thing to than laughed at, for, to my mind, it's one or other the disagreeablest thing in the world.

  Fanny Burney

  Mind, Done, World

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.164, Delphi Classics

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• Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.

  Muriel Spark

  Weapons, Honorable, Left

  Muriel Spark (2018). “A Good Comb: The Sayings of Muriel Spark”, p.21, New Directions Publishing

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• The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness - and the other represents oppression.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Views, Important, Oppression

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• Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.

  Horace

  Cutting, Failing, Knots

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• Any celebrity that goes on Twitter and spouts off, as if we should care what they say, is opening himself or herself up to ridicule by anyone else.

  Joshua Malina

  Goes On, Care, Should

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A refugee is not just someone lacking in money and everything else. A refugee is vulnerable to the slightest touch: he has lost his country, his friends, his earthly belongings. He is a stranger, sick at heart. He is suspicious; he feels misunderstood. If people smile, he thinks they ridicule him; if they look serious, he thinks they don't like him. He is a full-grown tree in the dangerous process of being transplanted, with the chance of possibly not being able to take root in the new soil.

  Maria Franziska von Trapp

  Country, Heart, Thinking

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• Everybody has same or the other weakness. This eis also a a general tendency to conceal theee weaknesses. For people may not harm for these, but they will surely ridicule or make fun of. Friendship, of course feigned should be retained with enemy till his weakness is known. Let him remain elated.

  Chanakya

  Fun, People, Political

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• Young men, terminate, I beseech you, in your own experience, the sad divorce which has too often existed between intellect and piety. Take your stand, unswerving, heroic, by the altar of truth; and from that altar let neither sophistry nor ridicule expel you. Let your faith rest with a child's trust, with a martyr's grip, upon the truth as it is in Jesus.

  William Morley Punshon

  Jesus, Children, Divorce

  William Morley Punshon (1857). “John Bunyan, a lecture”, p.24

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• A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it round in a futile wild-goose chase for imaginary ideals.

  Lin Yutang

  Wild Geese, Might, Too Much

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• As Eastern thought has begun to interest a significant number of people, and meditation is no longer viewed with ridicule or suspicion, mysticism is being taken seriously even within the scientific community. An increasing number of scientists are aware that mystical thought provides a consistent and relevant philosophical background to the theories of Contemporary science, a conception of the world in which the scientific discoveries of men and women can be in perfect harmony with their spiritual aims and religious beliefs.

  Fritjof Capra

  Spiritual, Religious, Philosophical

  "The Turning Point". Book by Fritjof Capra, www.juwing.sp.ru. 1982.

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• When will you disembarrass yourselves of the lymphatic ideology of that deplorable Ruskin, which I would like to cover with so much ridicule that you would never forget it? With his morbid dream of primitive and rustic life, with his nostalgia for Homeric cheeses and legendary wool-spinners, with his hatred for the machine, steam power, and electricity, that maniac of antique simplicity is like a man who, after having reached full physical maturity, still wants to sleep in his cradle and feed himself at the breast of his decrepit old nurse in order to recover his thoughtless infancy.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  "Modernism and Its Margins: Reinscribing Cultural Modernity from Spain and Latin America" by Anthony L. Geist, Jose B. Monle-N, Taylor & Francis, (p. 57), 1999.

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• Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.

  William Hazlitt

  Laughing, Weakness, Comedy

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.180, Delphi Classics

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• The popular culture still ridicules religion and often treats it like the plague.

  Gary Bauer

  Christian, Religious, Culture

  Gary Bauer (1992). “Our Journey Home: What Parents Are Doing to Preserve Family Values”, W Publishing Group

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• Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.

  Tryon Edwards

  Mind, May, Littles

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1191, Ravenio Books

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• Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.

  Jane Austen

  Grief, Sorrow, World

  Jesse Zuba, Jane Austen (2009). “Persuasion - Jane Austen”, p.150, Infobase Publishing

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