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• ...it is presumptuous ridicule of God if someone thinks that only the person who desires great wealth chooses mammon. Alas, the person who insists on having a penny without God, wants to have a penny all for himself. He thereby chooses mammon. A penny is enough, the choice is made, he has chosen mammon; that it is little makes not the slightest difference. The love of God is hatred of the world and love of the world hatred of God.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Thinking, World And Love

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• Before you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be train spotting may actually be writing poetry.

  John Hegley

  Writing, May, Remember

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• Ridicule is not a part of the scientific method and the public should not be taught that it is

  J. Allen Hynek

  Scientific Method, Taught, Should

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• As to rocket ships flying between America and Europe, I believe it is worth seriously trying for. Thirty years ago persons who were developing flying were laughed at as mad, and that scorn hindered aviation. Now we heap similar ridicule upon stratoplane or rocket ships for trans-Atlantic flights.

  Auguste Piccard

  Believe, Years, Europe

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• Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Abuse, Awakening

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.144, A&C Black

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• Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Patience, Self, Denial

  J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.854, e-artnow

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• Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world.

  J. C. Ryle

  Laughter, Followers, World

  "Bible Commentary - The Gospel of John".

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• The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation.

  Steven Pressfield

  Artist, Self, Rejection

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.68, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.

  Daniel Okrent

  Pundits, Reporters, Knows

  "It's curtains for Okrent". Interview with Steve Kettmann, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2005.

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• Faith is not a leap in the dark; it’s the exact opposite. It’s a commitment based on evidence… It is irrational to reduce all faith to blind faith and then subject it to ridicule. That provides a very anti-intellectual and convenient way of avoiding intelligent discussion.

  John Lennox

  Commitment, Dark, Intelligent

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• Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination and skill, what the world asks of you is courage, courage to risk rejection, ridicule and failure. As you follow the quest for stories told with meaning and beauty, study thoughtfully but write boldly. Then, like the hero of the fable, your dance will dazzle the world.

  Robert McKee

  Hero, Writing, Skills

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

  Rhonda Britten

  Not Good Enough, Rejected, Afraid Of Failure

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• The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist in which honest police officers can act without fear of ridicule or reprisal from fellow officers.

  Frank Serpico

  Police, Atmosphere, Doe

  "The Return of Frank Serpico". Frank Serpico's speech before the New York Knapp Commission on police corruption and other misconduct, www.villagevoice.com. October 1971.

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• There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what Garrison Keillor does. The other kind holds people up to public contempt and ridicule -- that's what I do. Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar.

  Molly Ivins

  Powerful, Two, People

  "The Mouth of Texas", People Weekly, December 9, 1991.

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• When adults first become conscious of something new, they usually either attack or try to escape from it ... Attack includes such mild forms as ridicule, and escape includes merely putting out of mind.

  William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

  Science, Discovery, Mind

  William Ian Beardmore Beveridge (1950). “The Art of Scientific Investigation”

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• What should we call him?" Klaus asked. "You should call him Dr. Montgomery," Mr. Poe replied, "unless he tells you to call him Montgomery. Both his first and last names are Montgomery, so it doesn't make much difference." "His name is Montgomery Montgomery?" Klaus said, smiling. "Yes, and I'm sure he's very sensitive about that, so don't ridicule him," Mr. Poe said, coughing again into his handkerchief.

  Daniel Handler

  Names, Differences, Drs

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• It is impossible to talk of respect for students for the dignity that is in the process of coming to be, for the identities that are in the process of construction, without taking into consideration the conditions in which they are living and the importance of the knowledge derived from life experience, which they bring with them to school. I can in no way underestimate such knowledge. Or what is worse, ridicule it.

  Paulo Freire

  Educational, Philosophy, School

  Paulo Freire (1998). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.62, Rowman & Littlefield

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• 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.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Moral, Purity, Satire

  E.L. Doctorow (2008). “Creationists: Selected Essays, 1993-2006”, p.70, Random House

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• An error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing something wrong.

  Marva Collins

  Children, Mean, Errors

  Marva Collins (1990). “Marva Collins' Way”, Tarcher

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• The millions of human beings who were shot, tortured, starved, treated like animals and made the object of a conspiracy of ridicule, can sleep in peace in their communal graves, for at least the struggle in which they died has enabled their descendants, isolated in their air-conditioned apartments, to believe, on the strength of their daily dose of television, that they are happy and free. The Communards went down, fighting to the last, so that you too could qualify for a Caribbean cruise.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Believe, Struggle, Sleep

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• I had long ago learned that when you are the giant, alien visitor to a remote and foreign culture it is sort of your job to become an object of ridicule. It’s the least you can do, really, as a polite guest.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Jobs, Long Ago, Guests

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage”, p.22, A&C Black

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• Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the place where we tear off that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness which the world forces us to wear in self-defense, and where we pour out the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts. It is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out without any sensation of awkwardness and without any dread of ridicule.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Communication, Home, Heart

  Frederick William Robertson (1872). “Sermons Preached at Brighton: By the Late Rev. Frederick W. Robertson ...”

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• He didn't say anything more, just waited for me to tell him what I'd been thinking. It was pure speculation, and I was opening myself up to ridicule by saying anything at all. I sat on the stool and realized that I had my loyalties, too.

  Patricia Briggs

  Loyalty, Thinking, Say Anything

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.172, Penguin

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• One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it.

  Frantz Fanon

  Mother, Children, Creole

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.20, Pluto Press

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• At heart, he could not abide sense in women: he liked to see them as silly, as light-headed, as vain, as open to ridicule as possible; because they were then in reality what he held them to be, and wished them to be,--inferior: toys to play with, to amuse a vacant hour and to be thrown away.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Silly, Heart, Reality

  Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.119, Everyman's Library

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