#ridicule

I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule. ↗

— David Icke

#because #being #britain #children #dad

One of my very greatest fears as a child was being ridiculed in public. And there it was coming true. As a television presenter, I'd been respected. People come up to you in the street and shake your hand and talk to you in a respectful way. ↗

— David Icke

#being #child #come #coming #fears

I have been the subject of ridicule. People talk about me and they don't know me and this is an opportunity to tell my story... to have my voice and to set the record straight. ↗

— Amber Frey

#been #i #know #me #opportunity

So how does Liz Phair feel about Lana Del Rey? Well, as a recording artist, I've been hated, I've been ridiculed, and conversely, hailed as the second coming. All that matters in the end is that I've been heard. ↗

— Liz Phair

#artist #been #coming #conversely #del

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool. ↗

— Charles Simmons

#first #fool #last #ridicule

Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy of ridicule. ↗

— Matt Bomer

#bad #being #being different #country #different

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. ↗

— E.L. Doctorow

#bias #fairness #ridicule #satire #truth

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#any #becomes #catholic #dogma #faith

When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America? ↗

— Glenn Beck

#did #man #ridicule #self-made #shame