Quotes about Mockery

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches. Votes: 6

Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies? Votes: 4

Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit. Votes: 4

Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves. Votes: 4

Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control. Votes: 4

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. Votes: 4

Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Well not really to get attention, but to entertain, but you know to show some elements of rural life as well, it kind of blended all in, its kind of like a mockery in a sense, kind of stab back at people that have those stereotypical ideas of the south. Votes: 4

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit. Votes: 4

Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious. Votes: 3

The Celebrity Charity Industrial Complex Makes a Mockery of Compassion Votes: 3

Mockery when done without prejudice or discretion, can be a form of respect. It's the closest we'll ever come to true equality. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture. Votes: 2

It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all. Votes: 2

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health... Votes: 2

The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery. Votes: 2

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity. Votes: 2

I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery. Votes: 2

Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us. Votes: 2

You label somebody 'New Age,' and that's automatic mockery: 'She cannot possibly be a serious thinker.' Votes: 2

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on. Votes: 2

The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art. Votes: 2

Mary Poppins,' the movie, was an object of mockery if you were a student in the '60s, something to be laughed at. Votes: 2

Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech. Votes: 2

Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love. Votes: 2

The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to overturn a government. Votes: 2

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi, quoted in Merton, p. 68 Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating. Votes: 2

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 Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn't make me feel good at all. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

If the cross is a personal act of violence perpetrated by God towards humankind but borne by his Son, then it makes a mockery of Jesus' own teaching to love your enemies and to refuse to repay evil with evil. Votes: 2

I think there's a difference when you make fun of yourself and your own behavior, and when you dishonor or disrespect Christ. If you're making a mockery of Christ is one thing. But if you're just joking about human foibles and weaknesses, I think that's perfectly acceptable. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

My friends adore 'TOWIE' - the TV documentary series, 'The Only Way is Essex.' They like it, I'm afraid, for the most unworthy of reasons: class mockery. They tune in to wonder in a 'can you believe those people?' way at the natives of Brentwood and Buckhurst Hill. Votes: 2

To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever. Votes: 2

The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery. Votes: 0

and the stars were icicles of mockery Votes: 0

Resident mockery, give us an hour for magic. Votes: 0

One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery. Votes: 0

There's a fine line between participation and mockery. Votes: 0

Without evidence, seeds of mockery blossoms and thrives Votes: 0

And I am a mockery, who was God before. Votes: 0

Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness. Votes: 0

The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness. Votes: 0

The freewill you have given, we have made a mockery of. Votes: 0

Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain. Votes: 0

what cannot be saved when fate takes, patience her injury a mockery makes Votes: 0

And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show. Votes: 0

When the gates of mockery and abuse is opened, the heart becomes a shock absorber Votes: 0

Saying We will destroy terrorism is about as meaningful as saying: We shall annihilate mockery. Votes: 0

Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both. Votes: 0

Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery. Votes: 0

That spirit of mockery characteristic of the guaracha was part of the mambo from the beginning. Votes: 0

The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn. Votes: 0

Pride and ego makes a mockery of an apology. Humility wins forgiveness without question...so break 'yo'self'! Votes: 0

... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. Votes: 0

I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry. Votes: 0

The worst mockery God can make of a moralist is that He compels him to be a solipsist. Votes: 0

You are a living mockery of your own ideals. If not, you have set your ideals too low. Votes: 0

If one is not a living mockery of one's own ideals, one has set one's ideals too low. Votes: 0

You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values. Votes: 0

Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world. Votes: 0

Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery. Votes: 0

If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice. Votes: 0

The internet wasn't created for mockery, it was supposed to help researchers at different universities share data sets. It was! Votes: 0

Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery. Votes: 0

Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace. Votes: 0

This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs. Votes: 0

It's I politics that men are always aggravating the hopeless tangle of their laws, obscuring the simplest principles and making a mockery of liberty. Votes: 0

Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart? Votes: 0

...two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, 'Oh, oh, oh!' and turning one over another, in sportive mockery... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There is no free will if to exercise it in certain ways produces punishment. That makes a mockery of free will and renders it counterfeit. Votes: 0

He was, she reflected, almost rudely like a tortoise; and she was glad her friend kept none as pets or they might have suspected mockery. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine. Votes: 0

Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope. Votes: 0

Virtually all the trends that matter are making a mockery of the industry's ritual incantations about the values and virtues of a free press in a free society. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Mock mockers after that That would not lift a hand maybe To help good, wise or great To bar that foul storm out, for we Traffic in mockery. Votes: 0

Is there not a terrible hollowness, mockery, want, craving, in that existence which is given away to others, for want of something of your own to bestow it on? Votes: 0

But Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of the Godhead into a mockery. Votes: 0

Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner skepticism, despite boredom, and despite mockery from the world. . . . Votes: 0

To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. Votes: 0

There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it. Votes: 0

Passion is what you would do if you got to choose. It's what you think about doing in the privacy of your own mind, without ear of dismissal or mockery. Votes: 0

He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that are most natural to him. Votes: 0

To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort , dignity , and personal advance is only a myth , or worse, a bitter mockery. Votes: 0

Ah,” said Magnus. “Nerd love. It is a beautiful thing, while also being an object of mockery and hilarity for those of us who are more sophisticated. Votes: 0

The Patriot Act [...] makes a mockery of the Sixth Amendment, which protects your right to a speedy and public trial, and your right to the assistance of counsel for your defense. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

As a man is, so is his God; therefore God was so often an object of mockery. [Ger., Wie einer ist, so ist sein Gott, Darum ward Gott so oft zu Spott.] Votes: 0

I do admit to mocking atheists, because mockery is a legitimate form of debate according to my rule Book. God Himself mocks evil men who refuse His moral government (see Proverbs 1:26-27). Votes: 0

No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Votes: 0

Maybe someone will know I didn't weave crowns to draw blood; that I faught against mockery; that I did fill the high tide of my soul with truth. I repaid vileness with doves. Votes: 0

Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair. Votes: 0

Immigration is everyone's business: it is one of the most important national issues. The idea that it is too dangerous to be debated is a mockery of democracy. It is too important not to debate. Votes: 0

It felt to me like I was living my life in a way that didn't make mockery of my values. That's what I intended to do. So, that became a very radicalizing proposition for me. Votes: 0