#ridicule

From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#experience #fun #know #knowing #made

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

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

Lincoln was the greatest speaker and he was ridiculed for how he looked, you know? ↗

— Kevin Costner

#how #know #lincoln #looked #ridiculed

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

I'm appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#appalled #been #believe #feminism #global

I worry about kids and all they are exposed to. Kids get so bombarded with hard, commercial sounds. They don't even have a chance to develop the softer part of themselves without fear of being ridiculed. ↗

— Susannah McCorkle

#being #bombarded #chance #commercial #develop

Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#beverage #coarse #favorite #intellectual #naturally

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#had #only #reason #resort #ridicule