Public Ridicule Quotes

#1. The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.

Moliere

#2. We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.

Horace Walpole

#3. If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.

Boyd K. Packer

#4. That was the problem with public art, it risked great ridicule.

Joy Williams

#5. I've never been able to stop the blockbuster disaster film from playing on an endless loop in my mind.
I see the terrible coming, whether it is or not.

Augusten Burroughs

#6. Ridicule is not a part of the scientific method and the public should not be taught that it is

J. Allen Hynek

#7. Ridicule is a public confession of fear.

Vanna Bonta

#8. I'm thinking of starting my own talk radio show. I'll spout simplistic opinions for hours on end, ridicule anyone who disagrees with me, and generally foster divisiveness, cynicism, and a lower level of public dialog!

Bill Watterson

#9. Success is when reality catches up to your imagination.

Simon Sinek

#10. Humans are so ignorant. That word means something else, but you use it to try to insult others. You do realize that only humans view such things as homosexuality as a sin. In the other realms it is nothing it doesn't exist as love is love and gender matters not.

Kerri E. Lorenz

#11. When you're following your dreams, you quickly learn who wants you to succeed and who desires to see you fail. Pay attention and stay focused on what's important.

Delano Johnson

#12. They were completely vague. They expressed everything and nothing. 'It is the Aeolian harp of style,' thought Julien. 'Amid the most lofty thoughts about annihilation, death, the infinite, etc., I can see no reality save a shocking fear of ridicule.

Stendhal

#13. It's been a mystery to me and a disappointment why conversation about health care reform hasn't turned more attention to the subject of food.

Michael Pollan