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Quotes About Offensive

I understand that in the UK there have already been 10,000 complaints from viewers about these remarks, which people see, rightly, as offensive. I want Britain to be seen as a country of fairness and tolerance. Anything detracting from this I condemn.
~ James Gordon Brown
A culinary triumph: the ingenious use of food as an offensive weapon.
~ James Hamilton-Paterson
I know. Aha, Oho, and every other bloody ejaculation. Let's take it as read. You're delirious at the idea of manhandling me and can't wait to start. I in turn may say I find your arrival offensive and your presence blasphemous, thus concluding the exchange of civilities and letting us get out of here. If there's anything novel or extra you want to add, you can think of it on the way home.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
The stories had, of course, been offensive and callously insensitive and had largely been ignored by everybody in the country except for those very few millions who were keen on offensive and callously insensitive things.
~ Douglas Adams
If you expect me to buy something where all I can sense is carelessness, actually I think that is personally offensive.
~ Jonathan Ive
We played a gig and we had a song that was offensive to people of the Jewish persuasion, and we led off with it, and they were offended by it, and that was that.
~ Santiago Durango
The way people do an impression of me is they use the phrase, 'Who are these people who do this... ?' Then they do some not-quite-good-enough observational humour, which is the most offensive thing.
~ Josh Widdicombe
I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.
~ Carlos Ghosn
It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil.
~ Chester W. Nimitz
Some of the greatest national security threats we face cannot be defeated or defended by traditional military hardware, but only by greatly enhanced cyberspace warfare, including both offensive cyber-warfare and cyber-security.
~ Joe Sestak
Is that what we think of women when they have a baby? That they're nurturing and warm, but if they haven't got children they aren't? I find that really offensive.
~ Asher Keddie
In conformity with these designs on the city of Washington, and notwithstanding the disastrous results of the invasion of 1862, it was determined by the Rebel government last summer to resume the offensive in that direction.
~ Edward Everett
Security against defeat implies defensive tactics; ability to defeat the enemy means taking the offensive.
~ Ralph D. Sawyer
I am comfortable in any position in attack, either side or in the centre.
~ Marco Asensio
I like to chip in with goals because I'm an attacking player, and that's what an attacking player should do.
~ James Maddison
She had that uniquely English talent of demonstrating, through her scrupulously polite manner, just how awful she thought the company. She could leave a roomful crushed and rejected and yet congratulate herself on behaving perfectly. It is of course of all forms of rudeness the most offensive as it leaves no room for rebuttal.
~ Julian Fellowes
It is the dirt within men's hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see.
~ Jocelyn Murray
Let him avoid ,the acquisition of wealth and ,the gratification of his desires, if they are opposed to the sacred law, and even lawful acts which may cause pain in the future or are offensive to men.
~ Guru Nanak
When I see that man on the telly - 'Are you thinking what I'm thinking?' No! I'm definitely not! I find most of it quite offensive!
~ John Prescott
I hate the industry even more now, no bands get nurtured anymore. Labels only spend money promoting acts they know will be Top Ten. I find it offensive spending $2 million on a video.
~ Siouxsie Sioux
The best part of you ran down your mother's legs.
~ Jackie Gleason
The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... The movie is vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature.
~ Roger Ebert
Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
~ Malcolm Boyd
The one effective method of defending one's own territory from an offensive by air is to destroy the enemy's air power with the greatest possible speed.
~ Giulio Douhet