Quotes About Offending People

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.

Linus Torvalds

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. I don't see myself as offending people.

Jimmy Carr

#7. Once you feel loved by the universe, you're already accepted, and you're not really concerned about offending people.

Alice Walker

#8. I don't want to go about offending people; that's not my plan.

Karl Pilkington

#9. 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

#10. If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.

Noam Chomsky

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#15. Dentists seem to me very orderly, businesslike people who appear to become somewhat bored with the routine of their work after a period of time. Perhaps I'm wrong.

Paul Theroux

#16. Good grief, we're getting offended by everything these days! People can't say anything without offending somebody.

Hillary Clinton

#17. A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They've been offending other people for centuries.

Billy Connolly

#18. It's sad how people change from the best to the beast.

Geneva Caballero Uy

#19. I love you so much. I love you enough that I want to stay separate from you. You're an extraordinary man, Frank Wright. I could so easily lose myself in your world and never make a world of my own. And where would that leave us? We'd both be bored stupid.

Nancy Horan

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. If North Korea doesn't have a deterrent, they will be wiped out.

Noam Chomsky

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Michael Douglas

#28. If you're not offending one group of people, you're not entertaining the other.

Blake Shelton

#29. 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

#30. You are not necessarily what you say. Behavior is a much better barometer of what you are than words. What you do in your present moments is the only indicator of what you are as a person.

Wayne W. Dyer

#31. 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.

#32. It is all about confidence: 90% mental and 10% physical, that is what basketball is. I live by that and it seems to be working.

Michael Redd

#33. She is not so secure on her throne that she can risk offending her people's gods. No woman can be.

Megan Whalen Turner

#34. The whole scene had an imaginary quality to it. I knew that it was real, but at the same time it was better than reality, more nearly a projection of what I wanted from reality than anything I had experienced before.

Paul Auster

#35. If a columnist writes that something happened on a certain date, or that the government spent a certain amount of money on something, or that a specific number of people have died in the war in Iraq, to pick a few examples, it is his or her responsibility to make certain that information is correct.

Andrew Rosenthal

#36. There is only one way to go now: forward, into the unknown

Cristina Moracho

#37. People notice the most beautiful dress every person can wear, ... a smile

Anne Stuart

#38. There's a small group of people always watching me to make sure I'm still offending.

Peter Saul

#39. For most of the '90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish online only needed to worry about the graphical web browser.

Mike Davidson

#40. Boy meets girl. So what?

Bertolt Brecht

#41. 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

#42. Syn spread his legs wider than a cheap hooker in a Red Roof Inn. "I need it now, Furi.

A.E. Via

#43. 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