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Jest with your equals.
The real satire starts when I'm shockingly mocked,not mockingly shocked.
The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule.
You don't have to laugh out loud to mock someone.
Mocking someone else to make us seem deep or intelligent only proves the exact opposite.
In mockery I have set
A powerful emblem up,
And sing it rhyme upon rhyme
In mockery of a time
Half dead at the top.
Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.
You cannot mock God because whatever good thing you do, you're gonna reap for it.
Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
The internet wasn't created for mockery, it was supposed to help researchers at different universities share data sets. It was!
Mockery is an important social tool for squelching stupidity. I've never seen anyone change his mind because of the power of a superior argument or the acquisition of new facts. But I've seen plenty of people change behavior to avoid being mocked.
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things ... one of the beginnings of the human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority, its indispensable
Ridicule is a public confession of fear.
Every nation mocks other nations. And all are right.
I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.
I do have a residual belief that, if at all possible, you should try not to mock the weak
In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use.
One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished it in a marked manner
He that mockes a cripple, ought to be whole.
Outwardly mocking, but never quite to the point if not wanting to participate.
Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.
Imitation is criticism.
Ridicule is the best test of truth.
If there's anything intolerance can't tolerate, it's ridicule!
Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.
Flattery ... gets its kicks by flirting with insult and ridicule.
I do not mock the beliefs of others. This world is large enough for a thousand religions. Every race has the right to its own.
To mock at a soul in pain is a dreadful thing.
Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.
The freewill you have given, we have made a mockery of.
God is only mocked by believers.
They themselves mocked Africa, trading stories of absurdity, of stupidity, and they felt safe to mock, because it was a mockery born of longing, and of the heartbroken desire to see a place made whole again.
Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.
No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.
It's certainly easy to mock some things ... Oddly enough though I've never found it easy to mock anything of value. Only things that are tawdry and fatuous - perhaps it's just me.
It was not the mockery of malice - it was the laughter of a salute.
They will look, and they will talk, and some will mock you." Let them mock,
I have been mocked by beauty, too. But it was the beauty which cost me nothing that in the end turned upon me.
I have a unique ability to mock everything. I'm a sponge by nature, thats what my environment made me.
In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance: we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature - or go insane
derision. (Psalm
New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?
Better to mock the game than to play and lose.
You can mock a wise person,
but you'll remember him when you're in trouble.
If you mock God, remember,
you'll need Him when you're in trouble.
Ridicule was a better defense than truth.
What was the good of restrained laughter; it made a mockery of the entire practice of laughing.
It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack, counter-argument, and retort ... only to find a big bear hug coming his way.
Ridicule is also a weapon against forces of evil. Really clever, intelligent ridicule.
Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those who use it too much; yet satire should be allowed when unmixed with spite, and when the person satirized can join in the satire.
Men mock the gods until they need them, Kaz.
You should mock yourself and rise above this.
You should not mock what lies beyond your grasp." He
He mocks proud mockers but gives grace to the humble. from the Book of Proverbs
To make fun of a person to his face is a brutal way of amusing one's self; be delicate and cunning, and keep your laugh in your sleeve, lest you frighten away your game.
They say that what you mock Will surely overtake you And you become a monster So the monster will not break you
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.
No one is mocked with the yearning for that which he has no ability to attain. If he holds the right mental attitude and struggles earnestly, honestly toward his goal, he will reach it, or at least approximate to it.
Some claims deserve ridicule, and anything less falsely elevates them.
Love, you mock us for your sport.
Your mockers will only celebrate with you when you have gone far beyound them.
In order to protest ourselves from being disliked, we question our abilities and downplay our achievements, especially in the presence of others. We put ourselves down before others can.
Is not parody the eternal lot of man?
Derision is the refuge of threatened ignorance, after all.
Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.
By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.
Contempt is egotism in ill- humor.
Love can bear anything better than ridicule.
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God doesn't mock us. He never gives us a goal that we cannot accomplish in His strength. I want to assure you, you can glorify God, you MUST glorify God. But you have to determine deep within your heart that you're going to do it His way.
Who mocks at music mocks at love.
SELF-MOCKERY IS AN UGLIER THING THAN ANY HUMAN FACE, IRIS ... YOU ARE SMART AND YOU ARE KIND. DON'T BETRAY THOSE IMPULSES IN YOURSELF. DON'T BELABOR THE LACK OF PHYSICAL BEAUTY, WHICH IN ANY CASE EVENTUALLY FLEES THOSE WHO HAVE IT AND MAKES THEM SAD.
I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony.
Irony: a contradictory outcome of events as if in mockery of the promise and fitness of things,
Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
Displaying vice to the mockery of men deals it a great blow. Men put up with admonition but are loath to be mocked. One might be willing to be wicked; one cannot bear to appear foolish.
The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.
Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them.
The people who fear humor - and they are many - are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights, to question received opinions and to suggest unforeseen possibilities.
Do not mock a pain you haven't endured
It's humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.
We censure others but as they disagree from that humor which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us.
Resident mockery, give us an hour for magic.
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.
I reflected that it seemed to be in the nature of human beings to spend the first part of their lives mocking the cliches and conventions of their elders and the final part mocking the cliches and conventions of the young.
Parody by itself is not subversive, and there must be a way to understand what makes certain kinds of parodic repetitions effectively disruptive, truly troubling, and which repetitions become domesticated and recirculated as instruments of cultural hegemony
Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
Today I realize that many recent exercises in "deconstructive reading" read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it must never be afraid of going too far. If its aim is true, it simply heralds what others will later produce, unblushing, with impassive and assertive gravity.
Religion is an idea, and, as an idea, it should be eligible for criticism, discussion, and yes, mockery. The only reason so many believers demand special exceptions be made for religious ideas is because they know full well that their ideas don't hold up well under scrutiny.
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.
Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and ridicule of their rivals.
The devil ... the prowde spirite ... cannot endure to be mocked.
I don't really like using ridicule as a form of humor.
The mocker of Art is the mocker of Jesus.
It is the folly of weak-minded people, to imagine they are what flattery or conceit represents them; and that it is useless for them to be what they are not, since they seem already to have acquired the reputation of it.
Given a choice, it seems like pity would be easier to bear than mockery, but that's not true. Mockery hardens defenses; pity slips through, finds the softest places you have, and slices to the bone. Pity will break you, every time.