Humor as a Weapon Quotes

Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me.

Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

Ridicule is the deadliest weapon of the age.

When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.

Ridicule is more powerful than any argument.

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

Comedy is a great slayer of rogues in power.

I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar.

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

A lot of political people, especially people on the left, have forgotten the importance of humor as an incredible weapon, and a vehicle through which to affect change.

My first manager, he had left Germany when he was five, but he would joke about the Nazis. And I'd laugh, but I'd look at him, and he was the first one who told me, 'You know, funny is a powerful thing; it's a wonderful weapon.'

It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

Ridicule is also a weapon against forces of evil. Really clever, intelligent ridicule.

Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug,—push it a little— crowd it a little—weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand. - "The Chronicle of Young Satan," Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts

Here I saw, with my own eyes, that laughter was the most terrible weapon: you can kill anything with laughter - even murder itself.