Quotes About Offense

I could see he meant no offense, but in my thoughts I set it down as not very good manners. Manners! he said. Why, it is merely the truth, and truth is good manners; manners are a fiction.

No. Tocqueville said that humour would be bred out of them by sheer diversity. Anything witty was bound to offend someone. He thought they'd reach the point where nobody'd dare say anything at all.

That hurts my pride, Watson.

In the past, Hem did not like it when someone challenged his beliefs. He resisted changing his mind, and felt offended when anyone suggested that what he was thinking or saying might not be true.

Like any oppressed people, they defined themselves by what offended them, which would give New England its gritty flavor and, it has been argued, America its independence.

Like any oppressed people, they defined themselves by what offended them, which

By unanimous vote, some fourteen hundred Bostonians, the minority of them merchants, dispatched Greenleaf to inform the acting governor that they were "determined to keep consciences void of offense towards God and towards man.

Sorry, but retirement offends me. You don't just stop fighting in the middle of a war because your legs hurt. So why do you get to stop working in the middle of your life just because your prostate hurts? That's desertion.

Individuals who are focused on becoming better are individuals not easily offended. You can only offend those who are not on a path of constant growth and enlightenment.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

In our identitarian age, the bar for offense has been lowered considerably, which makes democratic debate more difficult—citizens are more likely to withhold their true opinions if they fear being labeled as bigoted or insensitive.

The trouble is, we are often afraid of our own emotions, or we are afraid to share or receive the emotions of others. We get embarrassed and perhaps offended by them. We try to suppress them or deny them, which is really rather silly when you think that God created our emotions just as much as every other dimension of our embodied human life.

No offense against moral order was too trivial to escape the attention of the Spanish Inquisition.

Those who claim to be hurt by words must be led to expect nothing as compensation. Otherwise, once they learn they can get something by claiming to be hurt, they will go into the business of being offended.

Come in quella canzone incredibile dei Cure dove lei è bellissima e il povero la guarda ammirato e lei si sente offesa e Robert Smith dice: «Ecco perché ti odio».

A justiça que surge da natureza é um compromisso de vantagem mútua, para impedir que os homens se ofendam uns aos outros e para evitar que sejam ofendidos.

You laid hands upon the blood of the dragon and for that offense, you must be punished.

This formulation puts all power in the hands of those who are most easily offended—or at least those who claim to be. The offense itself is the weapon. Legal torts require damages; societal torts merely require a claim of damages, without evidence.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

Mirth pleaseth some, to others 'tis offence, Some commend plain conceit, some profound sense; Somew ish a witty Jest, some dislike that, And most would have themselves they know not what. Then he that would please all, and himself too, Takes more in hand than he is like to do.

Regardless of what you do, or who you have, at the end of the day you have to be able to execute better than the defense does in order to score points.

I was very involved defensively at Florida, and regardless of popular opinion, I wasn't as much on offense. Should have been, but I wasn't.

When it comes down to it, you're playing football regardless of what offense you're in.

When every word is parsed for ill intention, regardless of who is speaking or why, we become so afraid we'll offend that we stop trying to communicate with people we don't understand.