I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony.
I think there's a difference when you make fun of yourself and your own behavior, and when you dishonor or disrespect Christ. If you're making a mockery of Christ is one thing. But if you're just joking about human foibles and weaknesses, I think that's perfectly acceptable.
While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech.
I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.
First, we must stop issuing drivers' licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them with forms of government identification makes a mockery of our laws and undermines national security efforts.
'Mary Poppins,' the movie, was an object of mockery if you were a student in the '60s, something to be laughed at.
The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.