Best 79 quotes in «ridicule quotes» category

Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most people aren't so bad once you sit down and have an honest, one-on-one conversation with them, once, with an open heart, you listen to their explanations as to why they act the way they act, or say what they say, or do what they do.

Those acidic insults being poured down on you are found in satan's gallons! Watch those who tackle you for you to fall down; watch them closely. They are wearing the booths Satan invented! Don't attack the people; attack the one who sponsors them!

The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them." (The Decider, July 21, 2007)

There is nothing in human affairs that is a true subject for ridicule. Beneath comedy lies the ferment of tragedy; the farcical is but a cloak for coming catastrophe.

When I was young, I thought I was a bird at one time. Then they told me I can't fly, so I stopped flying.

We must be passionate and controlled but not reckless. Truth is not established by shame, guilt, or coercion or tribalism. It must be established by reason, evidence, presentation, compassion, and yes, faith. It cannot be established by ridicule, mocking, or insults of sacred icons or traditions but by disproving them or establishing their lack or veracity or usefulness.

To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book.

Unlike the world that points out your flaws to ridicule you, when GOD points out your flaws, it's because He want to walk you out of it.

Unlike the world that points out your flaws to ridicule you, when GOD point out your flaws, it's because He want to walk you out of it.

We had to do something [in Bush v. Gore], because countries were laughing at us. France was laughing at us.

What would you think of an engineer who expounded the art of flying without revealing the secrets of the engine and propeller? That's what you do, you engineer of the human soul. Just that. You're a coward. You want the raisins out of my cake but you don't want the thorns of my roses. Haven't you too, little psychiatrist, been cracking silly jokes about me? Haven't you ridiculed me as "the prophet of bigger and better orgasms"? Have you never heard the whimpering of a young wife whose body has been desecrated by an impotent husband? Or the anguished cry of an adolescent bursting with unfulfilled love? Does your security still mean more to you than your patient? How long will you go on valuing your respectability above your medical mission? How long will you refuse to see that your pussyfooting procrastination is costing millions their lives?

When men allow other people to ridicule, laugh and jeer at the truth, that cannot but bring sorrow to the heart of God

When you find yourself looking ridiculous, reasoning isn't worth a damn.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." [Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)]

You can cease to be influenced by people who tease you... Just neglect their helps and elevate your steps... You can do it!

You can spit on a rose, but it's still a rose.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.

Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.

Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.

How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule? - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

Flattery.... gets its kicks by flirting with insult and ridicule.

I have to admit that I was terrified of ending the book, precisely because I go around saying about pretty much every book I read, "It fell apart at the end." I have friends who are waiting to ridicule me forever.

If there's anything intolerance can't tolerate, it's ridicule!

In the gospel of Jesus Christ, there is no place for ridicule, bullying, or bigotry.

I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.

Increasingly, Christianity is the object of scorn and ridicule.

Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule.

Logic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole foolishness of logic.

Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas.

Nowhere is one more alone than in Paris ... and yet surrounded by crowds. Nowhere is one more likely to incur greater ridicule. And no visit is more essential.

One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.

Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous.

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

Ridicule is the best test of truth.

Ridicule is the deadliest weapon of the age.

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

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous.

Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule.

There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.

We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.

A lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena.

A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey.

When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.

As for those who spite you, and seemingly just because, it's only evident that they're learning from you. Maybe you taste bad - kind of like medicine, kind of like truth - and to them, you're thought unsafe. There is flattery in being chewed out and spit up. Humans have always had a hard time digesting foreign things.