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• ... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, and character are subjects for ridicule and detraction.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Sex, Character, Men

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1898). “Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897”, p.241, UPNE

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• As a guy develops and practices his masculinity, he is accompanied by an invisible male chorus of all the other guys, who hiss orcheer as he attempts to approximate the masculine ideal, who push him to sacrifice more of his humanity for the sake of his masculinity, and who ridicule him when he holds back. The chorus is made up of all the guy's comrades and rivals, his buddies and bosses, his male ancestors and his male cultural heroes--and above all, his father, who may have been a real person in his life, or may have existed only as the myth of the man who got away.

  Frank Pittman

  Father, Real, Hero

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• One can't imagine a Hollywood film whose entire purpose was to ridicule, say, homosexual activists, feminists, animal rights crusaders, or environmentalists. That would be blasphemy. Hollywood understands that religious people, particularly Christians, are the last group in America besides businessmen who may be defamed with impunity.

  Lloyd Billingsley

  Christian, Religious, Animal

  K. Lloyd Billingsley (1999). “The Seductive Image: Cinema and the Christian Faith”, p.119, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I've often been asked what drives me, particularly through the last 50 years of abuse, and ridicule. What has kept me going is one word - care. I care enough about the land, the wildlife, people, the future of humanity. If you care enough, you will do whatever you have to do, no matter what the opposition.

  Allan Savory

  Land, Years, People

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• Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale, and the sacred cows you wish to butcher.

  Gene Spafford

  Wish, Cows, Sacred

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• 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.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Frustration, Government, Laughing

  Olaf Stapledon (2013). “Darkness and the Light”, p.50, Hachette UK

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• I'm sure lots of people would love to ridicule me when I say this, but it is true: many people die from cold related deaths every winter, and here are studies that say that climate change in certain areas of the world would help those individuals.

  Dana Perino

  Winter, People, Climate

  Press Briefing, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. October 24, 2007.

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• Don't fret, boy. I'm not so foolish as to ridicule the myths and legends of other people. For countless generations, people, no matter where they're from, have been trying to understand this world of ours.

  Nahoko Uehashi

  Boys, People, Tolerance

  Nahoko Uehashi (2014). “Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit”, p.98, Scholastic Inc.

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• Do you recall the laughter of the Philistines at the helpless Sampson? You can hear the echo of that laughter to-day, as the church, shorn of her strength by her own sin, is an object of ridicule to the world, who cry in derision, "Where is your boasted triumph and your Millennial glory?

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Laughter, Echoes, Church

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 147, 1895.

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• The neo-conservative critics of leftist critics of mass culture ridicule the protest against Bach as background music in the kitchen, against Plato and Hegel, Shelley and Baudelaire, Marx and Freud in the drugstore. Instead, they insist on recognition of the fact that the classics have left the mausoleum and come to life again, that people are just so much more educated. True, but coming to life as classics, they come to life as other than themselves; they are deprived of their antagonistic force, of the estrangement which was the very dimension of their truth.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Plato, Mass Culture, People

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.67, Routledge

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• In modern America, Judeo-Christian beliefs are often held up to ridicule and disdain by the media.

  D. James Kennedy

  Christian, Religious, Media

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• We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its National conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.There isnot a crime, there isnot a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.Get these things out in the open, describe them, attack them, ridicule them in the press, and sooner or later public opinion will sweep them away.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Feet, Democracy, Vices

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• While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.

  Isak Dinesen

  Failure, Ideas, Bears

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.10, Vintage

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• Creativity requires taking what Einstein called 'a leap into the unknown.' This can mean putting your beliefs, reputation and resources on the line as you suffer the slings and arrows of ridicule.

  Frank X. Barron

  Creativity, Mean, Arrows

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• Of course, we will face fear, experience ridicule, and meet opposition. Let us have the courage to defy the consensus, the courage to stand for principle. Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Courage, Principles, Faces

  Thomas S. Monson (1988). “Live the Good Life”, Shadow Mountain

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• To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Knowledge, Giving, Credit

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.42, Oxford University Press

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• Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.

  Juvenal

  Men, Unhappy, Woe

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• In describing the honourable mission I charged him with, M. Pernety informed me that he made my name known to you. This leads me to confess that I am not as completely unknown to you as you might believe, but that fearing the ridicule attached to a female scientist, I have previously taken the name of M. LeBlanc in communicating to you those notes that, no doubt, do not deserve the indulgence with which you have responded.

  Sophie Germain

  Believe, Taken, Science

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• People who are pierced should not be snickered at, should not become the object of ridicule, should not be singled out for special and uneven and unequal treatment. They should be respected just like everybody else.

  Gloria Allred

  People, Special, Should

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• I have been the subject of ridicule. People talk about me and they don't know me and this is an opportunity to tell my story ... to have my voice and to set the record straight.

  Scott Peterson

  Opportunity, Voice, People

  "Amber Frey talks of trial, book and life after Peterson". www.cnn.com. January 11, 2005.

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• Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Acceptance, Thinking

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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• Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms critics by making anyone who goes against the flow of commerce seem clueless.

  David Denby

  Clueless, Flow, Irony

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• Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.

  Barney Frank

  Powerful, Politics, Weapons

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• Soul-directed events defy logic and ridicule reason.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Soul, Events, Logic

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (1999). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, G K Hall & Company

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• Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of all the signs of a corrupt heart and a feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is the surest. Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Philosophy, Real, Believe

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