Quotes About Offense

So I shall say it again: that which does not offend us makes us weaker

Are you seeking to be offended?

to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.

A small unkindness is a great offence.

Staying safe is mostly a game of offense not defense. Prevention vs. Reaction!

Le nom d'amant peut-être offense son courage; Mais il en a les yeux, s'il n'en a le langage.

The First Amendment says nothing about a right not to be offended. The risk of finding someone else's speech offensive is the price each of us pays for our own free speech. Free people don't run to court, or to the principal, when they encounter a message they don't like. They answer it with one of their own.

Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not funny. It's gotta offend somebody somewhere.

I pause here for a moment to explain exactly what I mean when I say that word, just so people can decide right away how offended they need to get.

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Well, first of all, we've got to get away from being offended by the truth. We've seen a 41 percent increase in food stamp recipients across the United States of America since President Obama was sworn in in January 2009. That has nothing to do with black, white, Hispanic or whatever. It's a fact, and we need to, you know, deal with that.

When you know that the offense isn't just predicated on one guy and that every movement you make gives you a chance to be a part of the action, to make you a weapon, it's empowering.

For me I think the pressure Chael Sonnen brings is hard to match with his offense, takedowns, ground and pound, hand in the face and dropping elbows and shots. It kind of wears down a fighter.

I know my background was defense, but I'm not a defensive coach who wants to win 9-7 every week.

The football playoffs feature one-off affairs, without bad feelings building from weekend to weekend. In addition, football uses platoons for offense and defense and kicking, so only the interior linemen have a chance to really get up close and personal with one another.

I like playmakers, man, if it's a playmaker on defense or offense, just a guy who is going to put up some points, a guy who's going to be able to change the game.

A lot of guys are offensive minded, which is good at some points and times but bad at others - at lots of others. I wish I could say I want everybody to play defense as hard as I do. It's not a reality.

Britain is obsessed with political correctness.

It seems no matter what you say and how politically correctly and carefully you say it, you offend someone. Or at least I always do.

We're so politically correct; we take things so seriously.

Everything is politically correct nowadays.

Obviously I don't want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct - I'm not going to not do something because it may be politically incorrect. At some point, the metaphors and allegories break down. They disappear, and you just have science fiction.

We've gotten to a point where you can't be a politician and actually say what you're thinking because someone's gonna get offended, and God forbid, like, everyone's so sensitive now, it's ridiculous.

What offends me more than something sexist is something poorly written or unfunny or cliched.