Public Mockery Quotes

Senator [Tom Cotton] got a ton of blowback. He became the star of fake missing person's signs, encouraging folks to call if they saw him and also to call him and ask why he had been missing while his constituents were looking for him.

Public service announcement: In case of a terrorist attack, bottled water and duct tape are not going to do a damn thing. So do what Homeland Security Dir. Tom Ridge does: Get really drunk, and pick up a hooker.

I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

It is not possible in this culture today to hold up to public pillory and ridicule any group - whether blacks, American Indians, women, homosexuals, Poles, or any of a number of other groups that have been discriminated against in the past. However, the one group you can hold up to public mockery and pillory without fear of reprisal is evangelical Christians.

All the world's a stage. P.T. Barnum: It becomes a circus. But circuses or street pageants or parades have always been useful in a society.They've always been useful as a way of critiquing power. The carnivalesque has always been useful as a way of the powerful being mocked in a public space.

Although still viewed as lovely and alluring by many, Winston Churchill's mother shocked society when at 46 she married a man 20 years her junior. Most malicious of the many jibes launched at her was that of one lady who went about peering into perambulators. When asked her reason, she replied, "I am searching for my future husband."

Everybody remembers Robbie Williams said I had a face like a satellite dish.

He is still the object of national ridicule ... nothing about him rises above the ordinary.

The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.

I didn't ask anyone to make me a poster boy, because poster boys always end up on dart boards.

Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

I feel like it's my job to potentially make fun of people publicly, but I do it in a fun manner.

The president is always made fun of.