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• Catch-22 did not exist, he was positive of that, but it made no difference. What did matter was that everyone thought it existed, and that was much worse, for there was no object or text to ridicule or refute, to accuse, criticize, attack, amend, hate, revile, spit at, rip to shreds, trample upon or burn up.

  Joseph Heller

  Hate, Rip, Differences

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.377, Simon and Schuster

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• Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

  John Stuart Mill

  Inspirational, Adoption, Democracy

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• But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or show our tenderness; for us, death is stronger than life, it pulls like a wind through the dark, all our cries burlesqued in joyless laughter; and with the garbage of loneliness stuffed down us until our guts burst bleeding green, we go screaming round the world, dying in our rented rooms, nightmare hotels, eternal homes of the transient heart.

  Truman Capote

  Laughter, Children, Loneliness

  Truman Capote (2007). “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, p.124, Vintage

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• The reaction we should be having to [rich liberals] is not ridicule, but rather self-criticism. Why aren't we organizing them? I mean, we are the ones that ought to be organizing them, not Rush Limbaugh. There are historical analogs, which are not exact, of course, but are close enough to be worrisome. This is a whiff of early Nazi Germany.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Self, Historical

  Source: www.iww.org

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• Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and ridicule an apostolic gate-keeper who couldn't keep his head above water.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Sea, Water, Mind

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• The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  World, Weapons

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2014). “Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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• He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Greatness, Laughing, Mirth

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• Twenty-five years ago, Christmas was not the burden that it is now; there was less haggling and weighing, less quid pro quo, less fatigue of body, less weariness of soul; and, most of all, there was less loading up with trash.

  Margaret Deland

  Christmas, Years, Soul

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• When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve in domination.

  Sheila Rowbotham

  Men, Curls, Nerves

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• Silence can be the worst ridicule.

  Helen Nielsen

  Silence, Worst

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• I hope [white brothers and sisters] read this book [Tears we cannot stop] and engage with it, but other white people have a better chance of speaking more directly to the white folk they know, because they're less likely to be subject to ridicule. They're insiders, so to speak.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Brother, Book, White

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• The judgement makes no sense at all. It exposes the country, Turkey, to ridicule. It would have been so much better if Ahmet Davotgulu had behaved like a medieval jester, but no such luck for poor Turkey. Its Prime Minister is not taken seriously by too many people.

  Tariq Ali

  Country, Taken, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• There's an internal coherence and logic to what they get from [Rush] Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and the rest of these guys. And they sound very convincing, they're very self-confident, and they have an answer to everything - a crazy answer, but it's an answer. And it's our fault if that goes on. So one thing to be done is don't ridicule these people, join them, and talk about their real grievances and give them a sensible answer, like, "Take over your factories."

  Noam Chomsky

  Crazy, Real, Self

  Source: www.iww.org

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• In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.

  Erica Jong

  Criticism, World, Made

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.17, Penguin

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• We have to be a little cautious about not trying to kill a gnat with an atom bomb. The performances are so utterly absurd regarding the "post-truth" moment that the proper response might best be ridicule.

  Noam Chomsky

  Trying, Moments, Absurd

  "Noam Chomsky: On Trump and the State of the Union". Interview with George Yancy, www.nytimes.com. July 5, 2017.

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• It is one thing to teach a dynamic Oriental philosophy and religious code; it is quite another to put such a discipline to the test by successfully living it in the face of ridicule.

  Frederick Lenz

  Religious, Philosophy, Buddhism

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• Having spent a substantial part of my career parodying religious figures from my own Christian background, I am aghast at the notion that it could, in effect, be made illegal to imply ridicule of a religion or to lampoon religious figures.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Christian, Religious, Careers

  "Comic alarmed by religious jokes limit" by Rebecca Allison, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2001.

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• Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him.

  Helmut Schoeck

  Men, Supernatural Beings, Envy

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• Ridicule is also a weapon against forces of evil. Really clever, intelligent ridicule.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Clever, Intelligent, Evil

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 10, 2014.

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• One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished it in a marked manner

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Evil, Vices, Sometimes

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “Introduction to the Devout Life”, p.248, Catholic Way Publishing

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• A principle familiar to propagandists is that the doctrine to be instilled in the target audience should not be articulated: that would only expose them to reflection, inquiry, and, very likely, ridicule. The proper procedure is to drill them home by constantly presupposing them, so that they become the very condition for discourse.

  Noam Chomsky

  Home, Reflection, Target Audience

  Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman (2004). “Letters from Lexington: Reflections on Propaganda”, p.41, Pluto Press

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• Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Laughter, Book, Expression

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• Flattery.... gets its kicks by flirting with insult and ridicule.

  Willis Regier

  Flirting, Flattery, Insult

  Willis Goth Regier (2007). “In Praise of Flattery”, p.13, U of Nebraska Press

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• I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write. The happiest period of my life is when I was writing the sequels to "MASH". I was able to ridicule everyone.

  W. E. B. Griffin

  Writing

  Source: www.blackfive.net

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• The left wants to transform America away from founding ideals, and this is it. And they know it. And they're doing everything they, and they've got the media helping them and so forth. I think one of the ways of exposing 'em is to ridicule 'em. I mean, laughter is the simplest way to humiliate somebody. Laugh at them, it shrinks them.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Laughter, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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