Barney Frank Quotes

The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule.

Ridicule is more powerful than any argument.

Ridicule is the deadliest weapon of the age.

It's certainly easy to mock some things ... Oddly enough though I've never found it easy to mock anything of value. Only things that are tawdry and fatuous - perhaps it's just me.

From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule.

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.

The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.

Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the branding-iron, stabs, stings, pinches, tortures, goads, teases, corrodes, undermines.

Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.

Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.

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.

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

Satire is focused bitterness.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

Everything can be satirized.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.

Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.