Saul Alinsky Quotes

We've got to stop this making fun of guys. I think part of it's to protect [Barack] Obama, because he's the one that's well known for that.

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

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

Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.

Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.

You can laugh at somebody because they are innocent, and because they are naive or they are about to walk into a wall, but if somebody's giving you stuff, if somebody's talking, giving you their take on things, what makes you laugh, generally speaking, is going to be somebody who is telling it in an angry way.

Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.

Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.

I love when people talk trash.

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.

The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.

I point out truths when I see them, Brightlord Sadeas. Each man has his place. Mine is to make insults. Yours is to be in-sluts.

How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.

Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.

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.

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.

Who can refute a sneer?

I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I was getting into.

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

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

And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.

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

Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.

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.