22 Quotes About Mocking

Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh with renewed values and rebuild what has happened to you in the past. Shannon L. Alder

Don’t deceive yourself; laughing at someone’s weakness is not the way to reveal your strength. Your strength is in the help you offer, not the mockeries you deliver! Israelmore Ayivor

Don’t underestimate your tears. They have the power to strengthen your commitment to your life’s purpose and to direct you towards your goal. So, when you cry because of the people who mock or taunt you, be positive and make promises with yourself that you will prove them wrong. Saad Salman

Mocking precedes learning the hard way. Toba Beta

The real satire starts when I’m shockingly mocked, not mockingly shocked. Munia Khan

Keep away from people who always try to stop you from sharing your opinions with the entire world. Don't listen to people who mock you because you talked about who you want to be! Exposed yourself! Israelmore Ayivor

Chapter 4, ‘Organised abuse and the pleasures of disbelief’, uses Zizek’s (1991) insights into cite political role of enjoyment to analyse the hyperbole and scorn that has characterised the sceptical account of organised and ritualistic abuse. The central argument of this chapter is that organised abuse has come to public attention primarily as a subject of ridicule within the highly partisan writings of journalists, academics and activists aligned with advocacy groups for people accused of sexual abuse. Whilst highlighting the pervasive misrepresentations that characterise these accounts, the chapter also implicates media consumers in the production of ignorance and disdain in relation to organised abuse and women’s and children’s accounts of sexual abuse more generally. Michael Salter

Speak English! " said the Eaglet. "I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either! " And the Eaglet bend down its head to hide a smile: some of the other birds tittered audibly. Lewis Carroll

What are you gonna do, angel face? Stab me with your eyebrow pencil? Susan Elizabeth Phillips

To mock something is pure ignorance. Intelligent people even open themselves to things that they don't understand. […] When an ignorant praises something, it won't probably be something profound. Surely it can't be the Principle that guides us. Unknown

Non-professionals can also misrepresent the personal characteristics, religious beliefs, and appearance, of these therapists, can name-call and otherwise mock them, and can attribute false agendas to them, such as assigning religious motives to secular therapists working with ritual abuse or mind control survivors. For example, there is little to prevent someone from claiming on his or her own website that a psychotherapist is a fundamentalist Christian zealot at war with Satan, when that therapist might be an atheist, Jew, Buddhist, etc., who places no stock in the existence of Satan. But such a claim, when spoken as if it is fact, accomplishes its intended purpose of maligning that therapist."- Common Forms of Misinformation and Tactics of Disinformation about Psychotherapy for Trauma Originating in Ritual Abuse and Mind Control (2012) . Ellen P. Lacter

Now if you gentlemen, ” she looked at Briec, “and whateveryou are, will excuse me. G.A. Aiken

He was mocking me. I could see his mouth beginning to lift in a maddening smirk, a smile that was half sardonic and half secretive, as if the fate of the world depended on the answer to a riddle only he knew and would never share. Melika Dannese Lux

Now, I can understand why the appearance of a man struggling violently, as it would seem, with an airy nothing, and calling for assistance against a vision, should have appeared ludicrous. Then, so great was my rage against the mocking crowd that had I the power I would have stricken them dead where they stood. FitzJames OBrien

The legal profession is notorious for complicating the simples of things. Sarah M. Eden

Why are we sneaking out in the night?” Jack repeated.“ I already explained, ” Sam snapped. “If you don’t listen–” Taylor jumped in to say, “Because otherwise Astrid would find some way to stop him.” She mimicked Astrid’s voice, injecting it with steel and a tense, condescending tone. “Sam. I am the smartest, hottest girl in the world. So do what I tell you. Good boy. Down, boy. Down! ”Sam remained silent, walking steadily just a few feet ahead. Taylor continued, “Oh, Sam, if only you could be as smart plus as totally goody-goody as I am. If only you could realize that you will never be good enough to have me, me, wonderful me, Astrid the Blond Genius.”“Sam, can I shoot her now?” Dekka asked. “Or is it too soon?”“ Wait until we’re over the ridge, ” Sam said. “It’ll muffle the sound.”“ Sorry, Dekka, ” Taylor said. “I know you don’t like talking about boy-girl things.”“ Taylor, ” Sam warned.“ Yes, Sam?”“You might want to think about how hard it would be to walk if someone were to turn off gravity under your feet every now and then.”“ I wonder who would do that?” Dekka said. Suddenly Taylor fell flat on her face.“ You tripped me! ” Taylor said, more shocked than angry.“ Me?” Dekka spread her hands in a completely unconvincing gesture of innocence. “Hey, I’m all the way over here.”“ I’m just saying: you can see where that could make a long walk just a lot longer, ” Sam said.“ You guys are so not fun, ” Taylor grumped. She bounced instantaneously to just behind Sam. She grabbed his butt, he yelled, “Hey! ” and she bounced away innocently.“ To answer your question, Jack, ” Sam said, “we are sneaking out at night so that everyone doesn’t know we’re gone and why. They’ll figure it out soon enough, but Edilio will have to have more of his guys on the streets if I’m not there playing the big, bad wolf. More stress for everyone.”“ Oh, ” Jack said.“ The big, bad wolf, ” Taylor said. She laughed. “So, when you play that fantasy in your head is Astrid Little Red Riding Hood or one of the Three Little Pigs?”“Dekka, ” Sam said.“ Hah! Too slow! . Michael Grant

Weeping for other people's pain isn't true weeping if it doesn't come from deep down your heart. Auliq Ice

Now, if there were an Olympics for misleading, mismanaging and misappropriating then this administration would take the gold, world-records for violations of national and international law. They want another four year term to continue to alienate our allies, spend our children's inheritance and hollow out the economy. We cannot afford another Republican administration. Dennis Kucinich

Every time you feel like mocking a person you disagree with politically by implying that they are mentally ill, I want you to instead imagine you are talking to every single person who actually is mentally ill and telling them they are worthless. That's how it makes mentally ill people feel. Doesn't seem very progressive now does it? Ariel Howland