“The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face.”

— Ayn Rand

Question period following Lecture 11 of Leonard Peikoff's series "The Philosophy of Objectivism," 1976

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Russian-American novelist and philosopher 1905–1982

Tom Heehler American author

The Well-Spoken Thesaurus (2011)

“So I spit back at you, Huelsenbeck
But where you spit venom, I spit art
I laugh at you -- HA HA --
I laugh at you”

Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948) German artist

1920s, Huelsendada', Kurt Schwitters, 1920

“At moments when life is at its worst there are two things you can do:
1.) break down, lose hope and refuse to go on while lying face down on the ground banging your fists and kicking your legs, or 2.) laugh. Bobby and I did the latter.”

Cecelia Ahern book A Place Called Here

Variant: At moments when life is at its worst there are two things that you can
do: 1) break down, lose hope, and refuse to go on while lying facedown on the ground
banging your fists and kicking your legs, or 2) laugh.
Source: A Place Called Here

“You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Love in the Afternoon

“I mean, winning an election is no big deal. It's what you do with the power afterward that matters. And, well, for me anyway, it's proving you can do something entirely on your own, entirely your own way and for a commitment that is larger than yourself.”

Maneka Gandhi (1956) Indian politician and activist

After being elected in 1989, as quoted in Gandhi Family Rebel Charts a New Role in India's Politics http://articles.latimes.com/1989-12-01/news/vw-315_1_maneka-gandhi, Los Angeles Times (1 December 1989)
1981-1990

“You have made homosexuality official and legal. I spit in your face.”

Ahmad Jannati (1927) Iranian ayatollah

Secretary of Iranian Guardian Council Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati: I Spit in the Face of the West, which Has Made Homosexuality Official and Legal https://www.memri.org/tv/secretary-iranian-guardian-council-ayatollah-ahmad-jannati-i-spit-face-west-which-has-made/transcript,2006
Homosexuality

“… the Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself."”

Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker

That's it.
Post, linux.dev.kernel newsgroup, Google Groups, 1996-10-16, Torvalds, Linus, 2006-08-28 http://groups.google.com/groups?&selm=Pine.LNX.3.91.961016155929.27735D-100000%40linux.cs.Helsinki.FI,
1990s, 1995-99

“If you get yourself killed, I'll find your grave and spit on it," she threatened.”

Julie Garwood (1946) American writer

Source: Honor's Splendour

“You are bad and mean and I'm going to spit on your cupcakes.”

Sarra Manning (1950) British writer

Source: Adorkable

“Before you can make meaning, an odd kind of election process must occur. You must nominate yourself as the meaning-maker in your life and as the hero of your own story. Then you must consciously elect yourself to that position.”

Eric Maisel (1947) American writer

Source: The Atheist’s Way (2009), p. 65

“The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face.”

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