#ridicule

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

What would you think of an engineer who expounded the art of flying without revealing the secrets of the engine and propeller? That's what you do, you engineer of the human soul. Just that. You're a coward. You want the raisins out of my cake but you don't want the thorns of my roses. Haven't you too, little psychiatrist, been cracking silly jokes about me? Haven't you ridiculed me as "the prophet of bigger and better orgasms"? Have you never heard the whimpering of a young wife whose body has been desecrated by an impotent husband? Or the anguished cry of an adolescent bursting with unfulfilled love? Does your security still mean more to you than your patient? How long will you go on valuing your respectability above your medical mission? How long will you refuse to see that your pussyfooting procrastination is costing millions their lives? ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#fear #inspirational #ridicule #art

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice. ↗

— André Gide

#fear #ridicule #cowardice

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

I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular? ↗

— Kevin Costner

#been #change #defines #feel #had

I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#because #been #believe #humiliated #i

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him. ↗

— Criss Jami

#beauty #confusion #depression #discern #discernment