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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.
Few targets of ridicule are as easy to hit as owners and handlers of competitive show dogs.
I have buckets of sympathy for the obese, often subject to cruelty, ridicule, denunciation, and contempt.
We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.
It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves.
Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.
I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred and contempt, and I claim that right.
The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.
People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule.
The flame of inspiration needs to be encouraged. Put a glass around that small candle and protect it from discouragement or ridicule.
Sometimes it seems to me that the celebration of a person is really just a prelude to ridicule.
To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule.
It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind.
To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical.
[Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.]
I have always thought the women's movement traded too much on outrage and not enough on ridicule.
O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.
I think people saw me as someone who was real, and not somebody subject to the criticism and ridicule given to my profession.
Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity.
I name my companies things that are intentional, that are specific, that are worthy of ridicule if you are anything other.
If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use.
Before you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be train spotting may actually be writing poetry.
Remember that what seems zeitgeisty today is the cause of tomorrow's bafflement or, worse, ridicule.
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
Some claims deserve ridicule, and anything less falsely elevates them.
Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
You know, I think it's one of those cases where the situation really does dictate your level of ridicule.
The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
An error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing something wrong.
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.
One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it.
It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership.
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.
Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.
Donald Trump's tweets attract ridicule from some. But clearly they communicate effectively with his millions of supporters.
Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world.
Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.
GPS works great. I recommend it for all cat owners who want to know what their cats do when they're not there, if you can stand the ridicule from your friends.
The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion.
It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.
Anyone who attempts anything original in the world must expect a bit of ridicule.
When did it become something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?
In modern America, Judeo-Christian beliefs are often held up to ridicule and disdain by the media.
If people ridicule you, look them in the eye and say, 'Yeah, I may have failed, but at least I tried,' and get on with it.
When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve in domination.
I run into a lot of people who are instantly filled with ridicule at the idea that someone wouldn't eat meat.
While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.
Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.
There's no great person that lived that didn't go through scrutiny or ridicule and prosecution in all types of ways, to be who they are in history.
He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt.
Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.
You have to be mentally strong to withstand the ridicule of other children and the stares of adults.
A lot of sexism is just very silly... and the best response is laughter and ridicule.
When people can't use you, they ridicule what you represent. I was lucky that I understood that, because when one does not understand that, it is very easy to be broken and to be subdued.
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.
