#idic

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#freedom #irrational #manifestly #person #race

The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#because #become #derive #her #his

I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on. ↗

— Ugo Betti

#go #i #i think #least #most

Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations. ↗

— David R. Brower

#garbage #generations #i #i think #immediate

Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous. ↗

— Harry Browne

#become #being #empire #i #ridiculous

There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor. ↗

— Gary Busey

#being #good #good actor #got #life

I think most people realize that Barbara and Jenna are college kids, and to make such a big deal out of it is a bit ridiculous. At least now, the press has stopped. ↗

— Lauren Bush

#big #big deal #bit #college #college kids

I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed. ↗

— Gabriel Byrne

#bear #being #business #called #gregarious

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#momentary #pleasure #position #ridiculous #sex

Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#bloc #christians #decades #evangelical #ignored