Offensiveness Quotes

#1. It's odd that the people who worry whether certain plays are "morally offensive" so rarely worry about the moral offensiveness of war, poverty, bigotry.

Sydney J. Harris

#2. Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.

Rebecca West

#3. I think you can get away with so much more offensiveness when you're operating behind a stuffed teddy bear or a cartoon or something that's not real, because it's forgiven. It's like having a little kid in a movie curse - it's funny because it's not natural.

Mila Kunis

#4. There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation.

Swami Vivekananda

#5. Sweet it was in one sense, honey-sweet, and sent the same tingling through the nerves as her voice, but with a bitter underlying the sweet, a bitter offensiveness, as one smells in blood.

Bram Stoker

#6. The self-righteous feel no need to be charming, and thus double their offensiveness.

Mason Cooley

#7. We surround ourselves with what is better or see other people as role models. You go, "If they can do this, so can I." That starts to trigger people, as well.

Tony Robbins

#8. The symptom of love is when some of the chemicals inside you go bad. So there must be something in love because your chemicals do tell you something.

Andy Warhol

#9. The light is already there. In Zen Buddhism there's a little speck of dust on the mirror, and that's us.

Frederick Lenz

#10. There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

Luc De Clapiers

#11. It was a happy cemetery. The

Harper Lee

#12. Have you ever wondered why in the last century all the great metropolises hastened to build subways?" "To solve traffic problems?" "Before there were automobiles, when there were only horse-drawn carriages? From

Umberto Eco

#13. Change according to the Spirit all your priorities, and then joy is your own.

Nirmala Srivastava

#14. We Christians joyfully recognize the religious values we have in common with Islam. I would like to repeat what I said to young Muslims some years ago in Casablanca: 'We believe in the same God, the one God, the living God, the God who created the world and brings his creatures to their perfection.

Pope John Paul II

#15. Every dog has his day.

Miguel De Cervantes

#16. To me, it's worth getting offended by someone if it means I can trust that every word is their true opinion.

Sarah Glidden