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Quotes About Offend

Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I'm simply worried.
~ Sam Harris
I believe it is no secret that I like Japan very much - Japanese culture, sport, including judo, but it will not offend anyone if I say that I like Russia even more.
~ Vladimir Putin
REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You add insult to injury.
~ Anonymous
Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?
~ Roger Ebert
The more integrity you have the more humanity will offend you, the less integrity you have the less offensive humanity will be to you.
~ Ryan Pack
The relentless pursuit of mass will make you boring, because mass means average, it means the center of the curve, it requires you to offend no one and satisfy everyone.
~ Seth Godin
I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us.
~ Tony Campolo
Love God and do whatever you please, for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.
~ Saint Augustine
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
~ Salman Rushdie
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
~ Sam Brown
And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
~ John Milton
Between you and me, the critics don't know a great deal about acting, either. The more experienced and scholarly can detect feeble plays without a Geiger counter, even though occasionally they hail as masterpieces items which offend the nose of the property man.
~ bankhead tallulah iii
Love is the fart Of every heart It pains the man when 'tis kept close, And others doth offend, when 'tis let loose.
~ John Suckling
The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love.
~ Emile M. Cioran
Caitlin is right, although her argument would probably offend every woman on the jury.
~ Greg Iles
I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.
~ John Woolman
Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.
~ Saint Augustine
Well," said Madame Morrible in a carrying tone, "one expects poetry, if it is Poetry, to offend. It is the Right of Art.
~ Gregory Maguire
one expects poetry, if it is Poetry, to offend.
~ Gregory Maguire
Well, said Madame Morrible in a carrying tone, one expects poetry, if it is Poetry, to offend. It is the Right of Art. I think she's bonders, said Elphaba.
~ Gregory Maguire
Well, I've never really been one to try to be politically correct. I just feel truth is truth, and sometimes I probably offend some people.
~ Franklin Graham
offend the Church was unwise, to mock old courtiers and women imprudent, to insult Catherine foolish and to outrage the Guards simply insane – to do all of these was suicidal. Frederick
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore