Quotes About Offense

I imagine that it would be unspeakably lovely to die with the terrible knowledge that I have offended whosoever I love the most and have filled them with bad opinions of me.

You can endure insults and abuse when you know them to be false. But if the remarks that offend you are true, their truth becomes a dagger in the soul - you cry lies! at the top of your voice, and know that you must silence the one who utters them.

I experience reality as a system of power. Coluche, the restaurant, the painter, Rome on a holiday, everything imposes on me its system of being; everyone is *badly behaved*. Isn't their impoliteness merely a *plenitude*? The world is full, plenitude is its system, and as a final offense this system is presented as a nature with which I must sustain good relations: in order to be normal (exempt from love)... —from_A Lover's Discourse: Fragments_

In fact, Washington wasn't nonchalant and could be exacting and quick to take offense.

I wish creatures wouldn't be so easily offended!, You'll get used to it in time, said the Caterpillar; and it put the hookah into its mouth and began smoking again.

I beg your pardon?' Alice said with a puzzled air. 'I'm not offended,' said Humpty Dumpty.

She thought of herself, "I wish the creatures wouldn't be so easily offended!

I didn't mean it!" pleaded poor Alice. "But you're so easily offended, you know!

I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.

This is not suitable for me"- to say this is indeed madness, it is nothing but egoism. To say 'will not suit' is an offense.

I always try to attack. While I'm on the offensive, my opponent can think of nothing but defending.

Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.

I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule.

The strategies of offense and defense are very similar between chess and football. Chess really brought closeness to the team back in those days.

Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.

no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour.

some people can only realize goodness by offending against it.' But when the old offense have ceased to be felt as offences, what then? The argument pursued itself internally. The only solution seemed to be to commit new and progressively more serious offences, to to have all the experiences, as Lucy would say in her jargon. 'One way of knowing God,' he concluded slowly, 'is to deny Him.

Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so henious as unorthodoxy of behaviour.

The problem, he thought, was that so much humour involved misfortune of one sort or another, and now that same human misfortune was out of bounds - interdicted by self-appointed guardians of sensitivity. There was somebody to be offended by everything, he though, which left little room for laughter.

It must be frustrating being a poet-or any sort of artist-and not being able to offend anyone any more.

The longer the life the more the offense, the more the offense the more the pain, the more the pain the less the defense and the less the defense the less the gain.