#mockery

I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery. ↗

— Ana Gasteyer

#characteristics #i #like #mockery #opposed

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#any #been #cannot #dogma #dream

Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#countries #destruction #development #engaged #hussein

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. ↗

— George Santayana

#contradiction #every #itself #mockery #moment

Pride and ego makes a mockery of an apology. Humility wins forgiveness without question...so break 'yo'self'! ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#apology-and-attitude #ego #forgiveness #humility #mockery

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. ↗

— Joseph Pulitzer

#courage #disinterested #government #intelligence #know

Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies? ↗

— Sophocles

#mockery #our #sweetest

Well not really to get attention, but to entertain, but you know to show some elements of rural life as well, it kind of blended all in, its kind of like a mockery in a sense, kind of stab back at people that have those stereotypical ideas of the south. ↗

— Bubba Sparxxx

#back #blended #elements #entertain #get

I have been mocked by beauty, too. But it was the beauty which cost me nothing that in the end turned upon me. ↗

— Katherine Paterson

#beauty #mockery #beauty

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity. ↗

— William Godwin

#desire #mockery #real #semblance #study