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• Misery is evil; quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong tyrannize the weak, the intelligent frighten the stupid, the inferior resist the superior, and the young mock the old.

  Xunzi

  Strong, Stupid, Intelligent

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• Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after that -- the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart.

  Baroness Orczy

  Fall, Heart, Idols

  Baroness Orczy (2012). “I Will Repay”, p.56, House of Stratus

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• Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad.

  Aravind Adiga

  Dad, Son, People

  "Indians' worst fear: the honest politician". www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2008.

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• Let others mock at you, oppose you, when you are under the influence of any passion; do not be in the least offended with those who mock at or oppose you, for they do you good; crucify your self-love and acknowledge the wrong, the error of your heart. But have the deepest pity for those who mock at words and works of faith and piety, of righteousness; for those who oppose the good which you are doing... God preserve you - getting exasperated at them.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Passion, Heart

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• He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.

  Tacitus

  Art, Years, Medicine

  "Annals", Book VI, Chapter XLVI, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p.502-04, 1922.

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• Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Time, Clouds

  1597-8 Prince Harry. Henry IV PartTwo, act 2, sc.2, l.133-5.

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• You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost

  Oscar Wilde

  Past, Secret, Doe

  Oscar Wilde (2011). “Epigrams and Aphorisms”, p.126, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Mind is a light which the Gods mock us with, To lead those false who trust it.

  Matthew Arnold

  Light, Mind

  Matthew Arnold (1867). “New Poems”, p.15

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• I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves ... too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry of mock patriotism: "Our country, right or wrong!" They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: "Our country - when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right."

  Carl Schurz

  Wise, Country, Selfish

  Speech expanding upon his famous statement in the Senate many years before, at the Anti-Imperialistic Conference, Chicago, Illinois, October 17, 1899.

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• It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon -- that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying. There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock.

  Thomas Sowell

  Clever, Mean, Common Sense

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.328, Hoover Press

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• Loathesome I am, and evil. You can mock me for that. But leave my pain alone!

  Barnabas

  Pain, Evil

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• Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Would Be, World, Endeavor

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.11

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• To mock at a soul in pain is a dreadful thing.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Pain, Soul

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• Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau! Mock on, mock on: 'Tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. And every sand becomes a gem Reflected in the beams divine; Blown back they blind the mocking eye, But still in Israel's paths they shine. The atoms of Democritus And Newton's particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.

  William Blake

  Eye, Science, Blow

  'MS Note-Book' p. 7

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• There is a clear difference between sexist parody and parody of sexism. Sexist parody encourages the players to mock and trivialize gender issues while parody of sexism disrupts the status quo and undermines regressive gender conventions.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Player, Differences, Issues

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• Don't slag off other creators or companies. We'll cheerfully mock dumb politicians on Twitter, but we try to never slam another creator's work or make fun of another company's projects or initiatives. First, because life's too short. We'd rather use that time to celebrate the fantastic work of colleagues and friends. Second, because it's a small world, and people have long memories. A few snarky words today can ruin a chance for an incredibly rewarding creative partnership tomorrow.

  Greg Pak

  Fun, Memories, Long

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• It is not a terrible thing to a wretched soul, when it shall lie roaring perpetually in the flames of hell, and the God of mercy himself shall laugh at them; when...God shall mock them instead of relieving them; when none in heaven or earth can help them but God, and he shall rejoice over them in their calamity

  Richard Baxter

  Lying, Flames, Laughing

  Richard Baxter (1847). “The Practical Works of Richard Baxter; with a Preface, Giving Some Account of the Author, and of this Edition of His Practical Works; an Essay on His Genius, Works, and Times ...”

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• Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave some monument behind, Nor thought of the leveling wind.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wind, Mind, Burden

  William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, Jared R. Curtis (2007). “The Tower (1928): Manuscript Materials”

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• A girl who sacrifices self-respect for social popularity debases true womanhood. A spotless character, founded upon the ability to say "no" in the presence of those who mock and jeer, wins the respect and love of men and women whose opinion is most worthwhile.

  David O. McKay

  Girl, Character, Sacrifice

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• I know, or I dream, that pop music can search out limits, mock restrictions and divisions, exorcise cultural nightmares, contribute to revitaiisation of people's thinking, disturb and inspire if only through its unstable mobility, its readiness to pursue apparently irrelevant links and private associations.

  Paul Morley

  Dream, Thinking, People

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• With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of a courtesan; it may be so, but I have the heart of a King. I live free, I enjoy myself, I can call myself happy.

  Pietro Aretino

  Kings, Heart, Son

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• Lot of folks like to mock dumb history, and pretend it's just a few idiots. Isn't. It's the country.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Country, Dumb, Idiot

  "15 Powerful Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Quotes To Make You Want To Read 'Between The World And Me'" by Aaron Barksdale, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2015.

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• I'm not an actor who approaches films doing a lot of research. I do zero research, unless it's a film where I'm playing a mock version of someone who already existed. Then, you've got to do a lot of research.

  Shailene Woodley

  Zero, Actors, Research

  Source: collider.com

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• I do not mean to mock or ridicule your life's work, for in one way at least it mimics my own: We have dedicated our lives to the pursuit of phantoms. The difference is the nature of those phantoms. Mine exist between other men's ears; yours live solely between your own.

  Rick Yancey

  Mean, Men, Differences

  Rick Yancey (2009). “The Monstrumologist”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep... For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that an' Chuck him out, the brute! But it's Saviour of his country, when the guns begins to shoot!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Country, Sleep, Gun

  Rudyard Kipling, “Tommy”

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