Top 100 Quotes About Offending
#1. I don't really think it's appropriate for me to be picking and choosing in the primaries. It's pretty dumb politics for a Republican to choose between Republicans in a contested primary because obviously you're going to be offending some people.
John Cornyn
#2. That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.
Joseph Addison
#3. I don't like offending people, and it's easy to offend people when you don't know as much as they do. This group knows more about what it takes to lead in this way than I ever will. My goal is to push people, but I need to do it from a place of respect.
Seth Godin
#4. Our problem is to work out a social organization which shall be as efficient as possible without offending our notions of a satisfactory way of life." - JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
Tony Judt
#5. When Friedrich Nietzsche mocked Immanuel Kant for having "discovered a moral faculty in man", he inadvertently resolved Kant's dilemma of being unable to identify what exactly constituted his "moral law" for fear of offending against a charge of empiricism from the likes of David Hume.
Joseph B.H. McMillan
#6. If Christianity is really true it will be offending and correcting you somewhere.
Timothy Keller
#7. The so-called symptoms of disease are manifestations of an inherent principle of the organism to restore healthy function and to resist offending agents and influences.
Herbert M. Shelton
#8. I'll take on somebody if they're offending the entire culture, not just offending me.
Sandra Bernhard
#9. 'Egalitarians' who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth.
Edmund Phelps
#10. There's something magical that happens when people eat from the same pot. The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn to share; it's where we learn to argue without offending. It's just too critical to let go, as we've been so blithely doing.
Michael Pollan
#11. Lord, if Thou knowest that I shall find, on leaving the house, even through obedience, an occasion of offending Thee, I conjure Thee to take away my life here, where Thou are really present, for Thou solely art my life, and I prefer a thousand deaths to causing Thee the slightest displeasure.
Alphonsus Rodriguez
#12. I bet you feel uncomfortable right now. You know, so do I. It's hard to talk about this stuff without offending people, or feeling offended.
Jodi Picoult
#13. I should willingly give every drop of my blood to please Him and to prevent sinners offending Him. I shall be satisfied only when I am a victim to make reparation for my innumerable sins and for the sins of all the world.
Gemma Galgani
#16. Had be been Shakespeare, he would then have written Troilus and Cressidato brand the offending sex; but being only a little dog, he began to bite them.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#17. There's a small group of people always watching me to make sure I'm still offending.
Peter Saul
#18. I'm not afraid to take on somebody or say something that somebody will find offensive because unfortunately in comedy, you can't say anything really good without offending somebody.
George Lopez
#19. If it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.
Ken Follett
#20. How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?
Michel De Montaigne
#21. So, Azalee - " When he turned to her, she stared daggers back - almost as though she had read his mind. Can Chertzes do that? he wondered in a wild moment of panic.
"What?" bit Azalee when he didn't continue.
Mighty Zeus, could he go five minutes without offending a woman?
Deidre Huesmann
#22. Never far removed from the progressive consciousness was a question that was never easily answered: of what value was it to punish offending Democrats, if one merely replaced them with infinitely more retrograde Republicans?
David Pietrusza
#23. Thousands of Christians compromise their faith in Jesus Christ by denying Him. Even some clergymen neglect or deliberately refuse to close a public prayer in the name of Jesus for fear of offending an unbeliever. They cannot endure the persecution that may follow an acknowledgment of Jesus Christ.
Billy Graham
#24. There are some really good experiments with the youth offending service, joining up youth offending teams with the youth justice board, and good local authority and primary care trusts working together.
David Blunkett
#25. She is not so secure on her throne that she can risk offending her people's gods. No woman can be.
Megan Whalen Turner
#26. We kill with antibiotics and antiseptics, and if our slaughter is ineffectual we use surgery to expel the offending organ from our presence. We destroy the body in order to save it.
Robert Svoboda
#27. By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if me my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires: But if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive.
William Shakespeare
#28. Be Yourself -The man who is neither bent upon pleasing his fellows nor afraid of offending them will enjoy great peace.
Thomas A Kempis
#29. Saints are described as fearing the name of God; they are reverent worshippers; they stand in awe of the Lord's authority; they are afraid of offending Him; they feel their own nothingness in the sight of the Infinite One.
Charles Spurgeon
#30. Gaiety is to good-humor as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance. The one overpowers weak spirits, the other recreates and revives them. Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain; good-humor boasts no faculties which every one does not believe in his own power, and pleases principally by not offending.
Samuel Johnson
#31. She considered herself fortunate to count enough in his eyes for him to derive pleasure from offending her, as believers give thanks to God for humbling them. But,
Pauline Reage
#32. The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going home at night and criticizing it. I would be curious about what I'd write if I didn't have to worry about offending.
Sloane Crosley
#33. The extremes to which Western elites will go to avoid blaming radical Islam for terrorism cripples our efforts to protect innocent Muslims. Terrified of offending butchers, we insist that we're the bigots, not them. We make excuses for monsters.
Ralph Peters
#34. If you go to a diner in the middle of America, people are having these conversations, but our politicians are too scared to bring it up because they're worried about offending the 0.002 percent of the country that may somehow be subject to what the conversation may be. And it's ridiculous.
Donald Trump Jr.
#35. Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#36. My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.
Horatio Nelson
#37. Let's not become so worried about not offending anybody that we lose the ability to distinguish between respect and paranoia.
Larry King
#38. At times, to make progress, you end up offending people. And people were offended by many things I have done over the years. But I did what I felt was right, especially from an art and creative point of view.
Dov Charney
#39. As a well-known great man would have said if he had thought of it, Don't go around offending people just because it can be done sitting down.
Gracie Allen
#40. I'm supposed to be a man but I can't help thinking no one ever showed me what that is supposed to look like. Maybe that is why I ride the middle all the time - never offending anyone, never getting a hard time, but never much standing out either.
Heather Duffy Stone
#41. Nothing about multiculturalism antagonized Rachel. She liked all kinds of food, clothing, cultural customs, and music. The one thing that held her aloof was a fear of offending through ignorance.
Ausma Zehanat Khan
#42. Dudley snatched Blanchard's plate. That lad shouting racial slurs may be offending Dr. Ashida. Please take him someplace secluded and kick the shit out of him.
James Ellroy
#43. I think if you're not offending somebody somewhere, then your show is probably just very bland and boring.
Mike Scully
#44. I am disappointed to find myself accused in some papers of supplying the offending sweets, particularly as I am a fruit pastille man.
Alastair Cook
#45. The great improvement of the radio over the telephone is that it may be turned off without offending the speaker.
Richard Armour
#46. Tact is the ability to formulate your thoughts, carefully choose your words and effectively communicate them without offending anyone. This is the most difficult skill to achieve, the best skill anyone can possess, and the most important skill in our daily lives.
Uzoma Nnadi
#47. The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.
Dave Barry
#48. I often look ridiculous in Japan. There's really no way to eat in Japan, particularly kaiseki in a traditional ryokan, without offending the Japanese horribly. Every gesture, every movement is just so atrociously wrong, and the more I try, the more hilarious it is.
Anthony Bourdain
#49. I think both freedom of religion and freedom of expression are both fundamental human rights, everyone has not only the freedom and the right but the obligation to say what Pope Francis thinks for the common good ... we have the right to have this freedom openly without offending.
Pope Francis
#50. If you have a bad feeling about someone, don't worry about offending them. Just run. Being polite is how you get your purse stolen or your purse stolen.
Lena Dunham
#51. If you're not offending one group of people, you're not entertaining the other.
Blake Shelton
#52. If you do a serious presidential bio, you want to supply the reader with maximum material because otherwise you're offending the reader. A president for many people is a serious thing and they want to know everything.
Amity Shlaes
#53. I might as well enquire," replied she, "why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?
Jane Austen
#54. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of offending culture, religion or traditions,
Staffan De Mistura
#55. If you are not offending some Pharisees, you are not being effective.
Craig Groeschel
#56. Your true friends dont shy away from keeping you in check because your wellbeing is more important to them than even your friendship and they'd rather risk offending you than watch you harm yourself.
Omar Suleiman
#57. Good grief, we're getting offended by everything these days! People can't say anything without offending somebody.
Hillary Clinton
#58. A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They've been offending other people for centuries.
Billy Connolly
#59. If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.
Noam Chomsky
#60. When your lover begins to talk about "offending" you, he's not your lover anymore.
Stephen King
#61. Live without pretending, Love without depending, Listen without defending, Speak without offending.
Drake
#62. It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#63. When did you ever worry about offending me?' 'Always, Man, once I understood that you could be offended.
Robert A. Heinlein
#65. But the longer I'm in the business, you see a lot of times these screenplays have been rewritten 5 times and you're not really offending an author.
Edward Burns
#66. Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
Daniel Defoe
#67. The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.
Walter Savage Landor
#68. I was raised a Catholic, so I can even feel a little, you know, embarrassed or guilty if I'm really offending people's sensibilities. To a degree.
Stephen Adly Guirgis
#69. Defending yourself is not the same as offending your enemy. Watch what you say.
Holly Chamberlin
#70. If the impertinent remarks of Mrs. Jennings are to be the proof of impropriety in conduct, we are all offending every moment of our lives.
Jane Austen
#71. The fear of offending can be stronger than the fear of pain
Dave Gorman
#72. I don't want to go about offending people; that's not my plan.
Karl Pilkington
#73. Now there are those among us who are trying to serve the Lord without offending the devil.
Marion G. Romney
#74. May we dedicate our lives to serving the Lord and not worry about offending the devil.
James E. Faust
#75. I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all. I like watching people, but I don't like talking to them, dealing with them, pleasing them, or offending them. I am tired.
Susan Sontag
#76. Once you feel loved by the universe, you're already accepted, and you're not really concerned about offending people.
Alice Walker
#77. I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious.
Patton Oswalt
#78. Don't be angry with the gentleman for thinking, whatever be the cause, for I assure you he makes no common practice of offending in that way.
Fanny Burney
#79. You wouldn't believe what people will believe once they know our story. They're ready for anything, basically - will believe anything, because they've been thrown off-balance, are still wondering if any of this is true, our story in general, but aren't sure and are terrified of offending us.
Dave Eggers
#80. I suppose if the offending paparazzi was wearing a hoodie and I shot him, it would all blow over.
Alec Baldwin
#81. I'm really proud of Gunsmoke. We put on a good show every week - one that families could all watch together without offending anyone.
Ken Curtis
#82. Everyone there pretended to be so bohemian and radical but really they were all worried about offending everyone else and she was fucking sick of it.
Claire Vaye Watkins
#83. Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.
Billy Graham
#84. I'm sorry, my lady," said Geric, rubbing his arm. "But I failed to force an apology out of the offending goose.
Shannon Hale
#85. We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.
John Ruskin
#86. You can say the nastiest things about yourself without offending anyone.
Phyllis Diller
#87. Like me, he has a searing belief that books are sacred. They might not be to other people, but when you have a passion, you hold on to it. You defend it. You dont pretend it isn't important at the risk of offending others. -Carrie.
Candace Bushnell
#89. I've never had any trouble opposing people I've been close to. I've never worried about offending or bothering people I feel strongly about.
Randall Robinson
#90. I don't see myself as offending people.
Jimmy Carr
#91. But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. We would be making the same mistake that Reverend Wright made in his offending sermons about America - to simplify and stereotype and amplify the negative to the point that it distorts reality.
Barack Obama
#92. If a writer is not offending someone, then they are not doing their job.
Patrick O'Neil
#93. It's very irresponsible as a parent to follow Tipper Gore or the Religious Right's advice and just take the offending CD or game away from the kid without discussing it.
Jello Biafra
#94. Genuine bravery for a writer ... It is about calmly speaking the truth when everyone else is silenced, when the truth cannot be expressed. It is about speaking out with a different voice, risking the wrath of the state and offending everyone, for the sake of the truth, and the writer's conscience.
Murong Xuecun
#95. As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.
Sam Harris
#96. A tiny torrent of diarrhea had popped the offending dart right back out of his gut.
Monique Happy
#97. It's impossible to go through life not offending people. All you have to do is basically have an opinion on anything, and you're gonna offend people.
Rush Limbaugh
#98. It is not possible to remake this country, to democratize it, humanize it, make it serious, as long as we have teenagers killing people for play and offending life, destroying the dream, and making love unviable. If education alone cannot transform society, without it society cannot change either.
Paulo Freire
#99. There is a demographic catastrophe happening in Europe that nobody wants to talk about, that we daren't bring up because we are so cagey about not offending people racially.
John Rhys-Davies
#100. Offending her, although he couldn't seem to stop teasing her. Some of my favorite shirts are blue. However, I also like Jane
Maggie Stiefvater
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