Rowan Atkinson Quotes About Ridicule

Quotes about: Ridicule

• The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Views

  "Rowan Atkinson: we must be allowed to insult each other". www.telegraph.co.uk. October 18, 2012.

• 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. The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas - even if they are sincerely held beliefs - is one of the fundamental freedoms of society. A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Religious, Race, Law

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Having spent a substantial part of my career parodying religious figures from my own Christian background, I am aghast at the notion that it could, in effect, be made illegal to imply ridicule of a religion or to lampoon religious figures.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Christian, Religious, Careers

  "Comic alarmed by religious jokes limit" by Rebecca Allison, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2001.

• The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness - and the other represents oppression.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Views, Important, Oppression

• A law which attempts to say you can criticise and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Religious, Law, Ideas

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