Quotes About Understanding

There is no way, absolutely no way, that I would want people to stop reading the 'Odyssey.' But I want them to read it with their eyes open. To notice it and then to think what it says about us.

The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.

In our society, which is multiracial and multi-religious, giving offence to another religious or ethnic group, race, language, or religion is always a very serious matter.

I have friends on the homosexuality side. It's not something that offends me at all.

I want to be careful when I'm breaking down matches because I don't want to offend anybody or knock anybody's work. It took me a long time to get where I was at, so I know how it feels when someone knocks on you.

It takes an awful lot to offend me.

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

People, I think, are more interested in being offended than getting to the heart of a situation. And to go after comedians to me is so counterproductive, because comedy is kind of a medicine.

When you know someone you can make a little more fun of them without them getting offended.

Whenever I make a blasphemous joke, I always say that I believe in a God big enough to know that I'm just kidding. How can God not know that I'm kidding? And also, how could God be offended at a thing that he made not believing in him?

I understand why people could look at things that Donald Trump says and be deeply offended by them and feel that he is not looking out for their best interests.

I don't expect people to know my name. I don't get offended if people don't know me.

You don't get to tell people why they can't be offended. That's not how that works.

I have never been offended. I don't know what it means. It's not that I disagree with it. I don't understand it. I've never had that feeling. I don't let feelings control my life. I'm more disciplined than other people.

Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

Taking offense is, in fact, one of the few things that brings us together.

Horror films have always been quite operatic for me. I always sort of scratch my head at people's offense to them? If you don't get them, and you don't like them, then don't watch them.

In 'Gran Torino,' I play a guy who's racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you're never too old to learn and embrace people that you don't understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess.

I don't lead a particularly Bohemian existence. The main criterion for me is not to be judgemental of other people so long as what they do is not harmful or offensive to others.

Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.

For me, it's more about the mental game, learning coverages, learning the whole offensive playbook.

If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.

If you only live in the world of the actor, and if you only live in the world of auditions, etc., then you don't really have a whole lot to offer when it comes to playing the humans that you're trying to audition for.