(381 quotes found)
“Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.”
Thomas Jefferson
“The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous. It's as psychological as malaria. It's a matter of exposure. People, generally speaking, will take any intoxicant or any drug that gives them a pleasant effect if it is available to them.”
William S. Burroughs
“To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize”
Blaise Pascal
“Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!”
W. Edwards Deming
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
St. Thomas Aquinas
“When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve in domination”
Sheila Rowbotham
“I have learned never to ridicule any man's opinion, however strange it may seem”
Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.
“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous”
David Hume
“The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that's just ridiculous. It's as bad as the church. My viewpoint is the exact contrary of the scientific viewpoint. I believe that if you run into somebody in the street it's for a reason. Among primitive people they say if someone was bitten by a snake he was murdered. I believe that.”
“There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
