A Quote by Muriel Spark

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.

Muriel Spark

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Muriel Spark
Scottish - Novelist
February 1, 1918 - April 13, 2006

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

Ralph Fiennes

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.

Saul Alinsky

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.

Thomas Jefferson

ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.

Dorothy Parker

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

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Ridicule is the deadliest weapon of the age.

H. P. Blavatsky

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

Saul Alinsky

Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.

Saul

Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.

Barney Frank

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Oliver Goldsmith

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus.

Thomas Jefferson

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.".

Ambrose Bierce

War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.

Theodore Roosevelt

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt.

Mark Twain

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

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