Orson Scott Card Quotes

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 may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.

Ridicule is more powerful than any argument.

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

We make fun of our leaders.

You snipe so steady, you snub so snide, so rip and ready to diminish and deride.

Who can refute a sneer?

What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.

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

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

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 won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.

I don't really like using ridicule as a form of humor.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

I've been called worse things by better people.

One camel does not make fun of another camel's hump.

When we want to say something negative to somebody we say, 'Aww, you're so crazy.'

Frank Williams says I'm nothing but a money-grabber. I can only laugh at that.

I don't throw shade at anybody like, 'You sound like me.'

The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.

You must wanna be in the Guinness Book of World Records as the dumbest.