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  • Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

    Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.47, Modern Library
  • The raillery which is consistent with good-breeding is a gentle animadversion of some foible, which, while it raises the laugh in the rest of the company, doth not put the person rallied out of countenance, or expose him to shame or contempt. On the contrary, the jest should be so delicate that the object of it should be capable of joining in the mirth it occasions.

    Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1851). “The Works of Henry Fielding: Complete in One Volume”, p.643
  • Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.

    "Satires", Book I. 10. 14, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 673-74, 1922.
  • Comedy itself is based upon very old principles of which I can readily name seven. They are, in short: the joke, exaggeration, ridicule, ignorance, surprise, the pun, and finally, the comic situation.

  • When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

    Thomas Szasz (2017). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.260, Routledge
  • Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale, and the sacred cows you wish to butcher.

    Wish   Cows   Sacred  
  • If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.

    Dry   Youth   Habit  
  • If there's anything intolerance can't tolerate, it's ridicule!

    Arlene Francis (1960). “That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm”
  • Faith is not a leap in the dark; it’s the exact opposite. It’s a commitment based on evidence… It is irrational to reduce all faith to blind faith and then subject it to ridicule. That provides a very anti-intellectual and convenient way of avoiding intelligent discussion.

  • It is said that ridicule is the test of truth; but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves - when if we cannot exclude the light, we would fain draw the curtain before it. The sneer springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be, that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

    Spring   Light   Doubt  
  • It would be rare to find a woman who hadn't endured some kind of ridicule for stepping out of line. When the market dictates that a woman's value is primarily attached to her looks and deferential behaviour, it's the threat of sexually degrading insults that help to keep her in check.

    Women   Would Be   Looks  
  • I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.

    "It's curtains for Okrent". Interview with Steve Kettmann, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2005.
  • Everybody has same or the other weakness. This eis also a a general tendency to conceal theee weaknesses. For people may not harm for these, but they will surely ridicule or make fun of. Friendship, of course feigned should be retained with enemy till his weakness is known. Let him remain elated.

    Fun   People   Political  
  • All great movements, it is written, go through three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. It is the realisation of this third stage, adoption, that requires our passion and our discipline, our hearts and our heads. The fate of animals is in our hands.

    Passion   Heart   Fate  
    Tom Regan (1987). “The struggle for animal rights”, Intl Society for Animal
  • The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

    Nature   Moving   Eye  
    William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.136, Penguin
  • Advanced engineering always, like advanced everything else, brings down upon it the discredit of ridicule of minds who cannot see so far.

    Alfred P Sloan (2015). “My Years With General Motors”, p.106, eNet Press
  • In modern America, Judeo-Christian beliefs are often held up to ridicule and disdain by the media.

  • I love satire. Evelyn Waugh is one of my favorite writers of all time. He's hilarious. He's so wicked. He's so great. On the other hand, pure satire is an imitation. It doesn't really have any heart. It only holds things up to ridicule.

    Heart   Hands   Wicked  
    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • Now, there are two ways to approach a subject that frightens you and makes you feel stupid: you can embrace it with humility and an open mind, or you can ridicule it mercilessly.

    Judith Stone (1991). “Light Elements: Essays in Science from Gravity to Levity”, Ballantine Books
  • Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and ridicule of their rivals.

    Abuse   Rivals   May  
    Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.53
  • 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.

    Ideas   People   Doubt  
    "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.
  • And took for truth the test of ridicule.

    Truth   Tests   Ridicule  
    George Crabbe, George Crabbe (Jr.) (1834). “The poetical works of the rev. George Crabbe: with his letters and journals, and his life”, p.174
  • It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership.

    Tony Blair's Address on Foreign Policy at the Lord Mayor's banquet in London, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2004.
  • No matter which word it is, when I pronounce repeatedly, it ends up sounding utterly ridiculous and meaningless to me.

  • We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or an equal. Hence ridicule is sure to prevail over truth, for the malice of mankind, thrown into the scale, gives the casting weight.

    Giving   Envy   Weight  
  • I don't agree that everyone should agree with everyone's lifestyle. I think that some people aren't going to agree, but I think that when you're mean and when you ridicule people it's a sign of your own insecurities.

    Mean   Thinking   People  
  • We're always hearing about risk-takers whose risks paid off, but they are no braver than those whose risks end in ridicule.

    Courage   Bravery   Risk  
  • Whatever, bro. We both had a long day. Too much drama. I'll TTYS." I wanted to ridicule him for using chatspeak IRL, but I found myself lacking the energy.

    Drama   Long   Energy  
    John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.154, A&C Black
  • Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who have been taught to consider the institutions of the schools as giving the last perfection to human abilities are surprised to see men wrinkled with study, yet wanting to be instructed in the minute circumstances of propriety, or the necessary form of daily transaction; and quickly shake off their reverence for modes of education which they find to produce no ability above the rest of mankind.

    School   Ignorance   Men  
    Samuel Johnson (1810). “Works”, p.420
  • It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.

    Men   Elephants   Atheism  
    Havelock Ellis (1915). “Impressions and comments”
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