#ridicule

In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then. ↗

— Arthur Bremer

#dozens #dress #fifteen #fifteen minutes #high

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

— David Byrne

#objects #often #ridicule #sheds #suburban

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#down #dragged #either #individual #lift

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#avoid #before #dancing #day #graces

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) ↗

— Bill Maher

#humour #ideas #idiocy #politics #ridicule

Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#honest #pitied #ridiculed

What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it. ↗

— John Bunyan

#ridicule #men

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#face #greatest #height #heroism #how

People do get ridiculed for liking us or because they look the way they do and they're a part of what we do. ↗

— Davey Havok

#get #liking #look #part #people

I worry about kids and all they are exposed to. Kids get so bombarded with hard, commercial sounds. They don't even have a chance to develop the softer part of themselves without fear of being ridiculed. ↗

— Susannah McCorkle

#being #bombarded #chance #commercial #develop