#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

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

So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. ↗

— Molly Ivins

#forget #forth #freedom #fun #have fun

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh. ↗

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

#common people #cowards #dread #empty #laugh

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 devil's happy when the critics run you off. ↗

— Criss Jami

#certainty #confidence #criticism #critics #determination

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#bewail #ceaseless #effort #human #human actions

Las Vegas se moque de tout. Chaque réalité, elle la tourne en dérision. Sans se soucier de l’histoire, elle broie tout évènement humain dans un chyme électrochimique et parodique qui le naisse absolument rien intact. Ce faisant, elle révèle la scène primitive de la société : l’impossibilité de croire en la vérité de l’autre. Elle fait d’autrui un parfait inconnu, puisque tout ce qui signale sa présence, la culture et la civilisation, est ici proprement ridiculisé. p12 ↗

— Bruce Bégout

#dérision #las-vegas #ridicule #experience

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

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#knowledge #reason #ridicule #skepticism #jesus