Abuse

Abuse does not rule out use. --attributed to Aquinas

When you have no basis for argument, abuse the plaintiff.--Cicero, 106 -- 43 B.C.

We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. (1749-1832), Faust (1806)

Calumnities are best answered with silence. -- Samuel Johnson

Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar.- Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1793 &endash; 1860)

Nothing has more retarded the advancement of learning than the disposition of vulgar minds to ridicule and vilify what they cannot comprehend.
Samuel Johnson: Rambler #117