Quotes About Taking Offence

#1. Humans are nervous, touchy creatures and can be easily offended. Many are deeply insecure. They become focused and energized by taking offence; it makes them feel meaningful and alive.

Michael Leunig

#2. We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From this high ground we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.

Salman Rushdie

#3. The act of taking offence becomes a weapon, and its wielder feels empowered by the false indignation.

Steven Erikson

#4. there's a time and place for taking offence.

Mark Lawrence

#5. And since the griefstruck rarely know what they need or want, only what they don't, offence-giving and offence-taking are common.

Julian Barnes

#6. I wish they'd conduct a national poll to find out who feels out of place and who doesn't. Just to get the numbers, you know? To get a feel for how many of us there are.

John Darnielle

#7. Everything written, if it has anything in it, will offend someone, and if the mere taking of offence was to amount to a licence to kill the offender, well the world would be sadly underpopulated of novelists, columnists, bloggers, and the writers of editorials.

Rex Murphy

#8. I do get obsessed with constantly thinking of ideas, all day long, but that's just how it is.

Johnny Knoxville

#9. The moment you are wrapped up in the world, you become blind to the things wrapped in the mysteries.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#10. It feels kind of nice to be lost, together

Gayle Forman

#11. A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind.

Aldous Huxley

#12. Ask God to make you like David: an intercessor, even in the midst of your own great sins and great needs.

Thomas Goodwin