(381 quotes found)
“Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption”
John Stuart Mill
“Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.”
Sir Walter Scott
“No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.”
Mark Twain
“If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today.”
Willem de Kooning
“It's ridiculous, ... Like, 'Why would he beat his shelf? Why? Why, Andrew Milonakis?' And then I say, 'Stop asking yourself questions and calling yourself Andrew Milonakis!' And I never listen.”
Andy Milonakis
“Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.”
Milan Kundera
“In response to a ridiculous statement by Edith: " I've gotta quote for you, Edith. --'A bird that always flies in the fog is called a dingbat.' "”
Archie Bunker
“The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out that this is the case. A negative opposition cannot be wholly effectual: there must be a competing idealism; something must be offered that is not only less objectionable but more desirable.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“Imperfection is beauty. Madness is genius and it is better to be absolutely ridiculous then absolutly boring.”
Marilyn Monroe
“Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn”
Olive Schreiner
