A Quote by Saul Alinsky

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

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Saul Alinsky
American - Activist
January 30, 1909 - June 12, 1972

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

Saul Alinsky

Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.

Saul

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

Ralph Fiennes

Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.

Barney Frank

Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.

Saul Alinsky

I think you can make fun of anything except things people can't help. They can't help their race or their sex or their age, so you ridicule their pretension or their ego instead. You can ridicule ideas - ideas don't have feelings. You can ridicule an idea that someone holds without hurting them.

Ricky Gervais

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

Oliver Goldsmith

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

Mark Twain

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

Ridicule is the deadliest weapon of the age.

H. P. Blavatsky

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

Mary Roberts Rinehart

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

Dorothy Parker

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.

Muriel Spark

In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance: we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature - or go insane

Charlie Chaplin

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

Thomas Jefferson

I was a subject of ridicule and lectures about the basics of crystallography. The leader of the opposition to my findings was the two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, the idol of the American Chemical Society and one of the most famous scientists in the world.

Dan Shechtman

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