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• It is not difficult to destroy Islam. Islam is the pumped up ego of a megalomaniac psychopath. Muhammad was a narcissist madman. Just as a huge balloon can be deflated by a small needle, all it takes to make Islam explode is to ridicule its loony inventor and its brainless followers.

  Ali Sina

  Ego, Islam, Followers

  Source: myislam.dk

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• In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.

  Sam Kinison

  Gay, Space, Community

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• I do not mean to expose my ideas to ingenious ridicule by maintaining that everything happens to every man for the best; but I will contend, that he who makes the best use of it, fulfills the part of a wise and good man.

  Richard Cumberland

  Wise, Gratitude, Mean

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• Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.

  Lord Byron

  Spain, Chivalry

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 13, st. 11

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• Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Ridiculous

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• It is a good plan, with a young person of a character to be much affected by ludicrous and absurd representations, to show him plainly by examples that there is nothing which may not be thus represented. He will hardly need to be told that everything is not a mere joke.

  Richard Whately

  Character, Example, Needs

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.152

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• Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly polished and refined.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Selfish, Passion, Pride

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• A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be; and women do suffer therefrom, in all its infinite varieties: loss by death, by faithlessness or unworthiness, and by mistaken or unrequited affection.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Lost Love, Loss, Imagination

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1858.

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• A man must keep his earnestness nimble, to escape ridicule.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Nimble, Wit

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8848, Delphi Classics

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• Comedy is an intellectual affair, and deals chiefly with logic. Tragedy is an emotional affair, and deals chiefly with value. Horace Walpole once said that "life is a comedy to the man who thinks and a tragedy to the man who feels." Comedy is negative; it is a criticism of limitations and an unwillingness to accept them. Tragedy is positive; it is an uncritical acceptance of the positive content of that which is delimited. Since comedy deals with the limitations of actual situations and tragedy with their positive content, comedy must ridicule and tragedy must endorse.

  James Kern Feibleman

  Acceptance, Men, Emotional

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• True devotion must not get dispirited; nor elated or satisfied with lesser gains; it must fight against failure, loss, calumny, calamity, ridicule and against egoism and pride , impatience and cowardice .

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Fighting, Pride, Loss

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Oct 27, 2016

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• No doubt that anarchist ideas are frightening to those in power. People in power can tolerate liberal ideas. They can tolerate ideas that call for reforms, but they cannot tolerate the idea that there will be no state, no central authority. So it is very important for them to ridicule the idea of anarchism to create this impression of anarchism as violent and chaotic. It is useful for them.

  Howard Zinn

  Ideas, People, Doubt

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Self, World, Firsts

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• Fashion was the only law, pleasure the only pursuit, and the splendour of dress and furniture was the only distinction of the citizens of Antioch. The arts of luxury were honoured; the serious and manly virtues were the subject of ridicule; and the contempt for female modesty and reverent age announced the universal corruption of the capital of the East.

  Edward Gibbon

  Fashion, Art, Luxury

  Edward Gibbon (1860). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.174

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• For it is a curious fact that though human beings have such imperfect means of communication, that they can only say 'good to eat' when they mean 'beautiful' and the other way about, they will yet endure ridicule and misunderstanding rather than keep any experience to themselves.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beautiful, Communication, Mean

  Virginia Woolf (2014). “Orlando”, p.122, OUP Oxford

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• My job is thick with risks, threats, occasional violence and sometimes the necessary folly that sometimes courts humiliation and ridicule. But I don't care. I see myself as the dean of American paparazzi.

  Ron Galella

  Jobs, Risk, Care

  Ron Galella (1976). “Offguard: A Paparazzo Look at the Beautiful People”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Some claims deserve ridicule, and anything less falsely elevates them.

  Steven Novella

  Claims, Deserve

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• Treacherous assassins, enemies of the people, and worthy of everyone's ridicule are those who, under the pretext of guiding future generations, teach them an isolated system of doctrines and whisper in their ear (instead of the sweet message of love) the barbarous gospel of hate.

  Jose Marti

  Sweet, Hate, People

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• In the future, everyone will have fifteen minutes of fame. Followed by fifteen minutes of legal problems, fifteen minutes of ridicule from late-night TV hosts, fifteen minutes of obscurity, and fifteen minutes of "Where are they now?".

  Dan Piraro

  Night, Obscurity, Fifteen

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• The ridicule you may endure from others when you speak up for animals can help you to hone your skills, enabling you to become better at articulating your message in an informed, compassionate, and communicative way.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Skills, Enabling

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• Once you identify yourself as believing something, you open yourself to ridicule.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Believe

  "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

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• Take, for example, there is a right-wing populist uprising. It's very common, even on the left, to just ridicule them, but that's not the right reaction. If you look at those people and listen to them on talk radio, these are people with real grievances.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Uprising, Wings

  Source: www.iww.org

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• An effort to declare the ban on contraception ‘infallible’ would have the immediate effect of focusing Catholic dissent on the doctrine of infallibility itself. . . . A storm of dissent, and even ridicule, directed at infallibility itself would ensue from such a declaration.

  Rosemary Radford Ruether

  Effort, Catholic, Storm

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• Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Atheism, Argument, Purity

  Thomas Jefferson (1926). “The Commonplace Book of Thomas Jefferson: A Repertory of His Ideas on Government, with an Introduction and Notes by Gilbert Chinard”

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• People ridicule you for the silliest thing, like what you wore to an event. At the end of the day, I'm just being me - if that's not good enough for you, tell me what is. Usually people don't have an answer.

  Travie McCoy

  People, Not Good Enough, The End Of The Day

  Source: www.complex.com

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