Mockery Quotes

• From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

  John Henry Newman

  Dream, Ideas, Religion

  'Apologia pro Vita Sua' (1864) 'History of My Religious Opinions from 1833 to 1839'

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• Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Laughing, Religion, Essentials

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

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• It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky.

  Muriel Spark

  Rain, Dirty, Bad Day

  Muriel Spark (2012). “Territorial Rights: A Novel”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Delight, Carefree, Pathology

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• Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Poverty, Results, Wit

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• First, we must stop issuing drivers' licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them with forms of government identification makes a mockery of our laws and undermines national security efforts.

  Bobby Jindal

  Country, Government, Law

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• The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen
  As is the razor's edge invisible.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Wenches, Razors

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens, Richard Farmer (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.36

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• Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.

  Betty Friedan

  Sex, America, Promise

  "Feminist icon Betty Friedan dies aged 85" by Jamie Doward, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2006.

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• Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

  Honore de Balzac

  Eye, Tongue, Disdain

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• Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?

  Sophocles

  Enemy, Sweetest, Mock

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• Any cause that requires mockery and abuse to advance itself isn't one I need to engage with, regardless of my basic beliefs or agreement with the underlying goals.

  Jay Lake

  Agreement, Goal, Abuse

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• To pretend to trust Christ to save you from sin while you are still determined to continue in it is making a mockery of Christ.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Determined, Sin, Christ

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Collected Works Vol. 1”, p.184, Lulu.com

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• I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Freedom, Mistress, Being Free

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”, p.73, Hachette UK

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• This great republic is a mockery of freedom as long as you are doomed to dig and sweat to earn a miserable living while the masters enjoy the fruit of your toil.

  Helen Keller

  Sweat, Long, Fruit

  Helen Keller (1967). “Helen Keller, her Socialist years: writings and speeches”

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• A person does not lightly elect to oppose his society. One would much rather be at home among one's compatriots than be mocked and detested by them. And there is a level on which the mockery of people, even their hatred, is moving, because it is so blind: It is terrible to watch people cling to their captivity and insist on their own destruction.

  James A. Baldwin

  Moving, Home, People

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• To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.

  Hermann Hesse

  Patience, Revenge, People

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• The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

  George Santayana

  World, Moments, Contradiction

  George Santayana (1936). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• Some people still believe you should just fall in line with whats going on - and thats scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech.

  Emily Robison

  Fall, Believe, People

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• O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealousy, Envy, Tragedy

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 165

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• 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.

  Scott Adams

  People, Stupidity, Mind

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.164, Penguin

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• Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.

  Thomas Moore

  Flags, Slave, Wave

  Thomas Moore (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Moore (Illustrated)”, p.348, Delphi Classics

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• Ego loves identity. Drag mocks identity. Ego hates drag

  RuPaul

  Hate, Personality, Ego

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• The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.

  Norman Douglas

  Life, Business, Enjoy

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• Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that they are man made and what you have to show [is] there internal inconsistencies and absurdities. One of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority... it is an indispensable thing people can call it blasphemy if they like, but if they call it that they have to assume there is something to be blasphemed - some divine work, well I don't accept the premise.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Men, Laughing

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• An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Courage, Government, Able

  Joseph Pulitzer, Michael Edgar Pulitzer (1989). “Pulitzer Publishing Company: Newspapers and Broadcasting in the Public Interest”

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