Quotes About Offense

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.

I haven't scratched the surface of what I can become offensively.

There is no doubt I have offended many people. No doubt, also, that I have blasphemed. I sometimes try to offend as part of my routine - after all, the essence of humour, even in a child, is the effort to shock and surprise.

It's often said we take offense most in what we see of ourselves in others.

So I committed this horrible offense of treating my husband as if what strangers saw counted, which destroys the whole purpose of marriage, which betrays the trust which is the real point of marriage.

In first-century Palestine, simply saying the words "This is the messiah," aloud and in public, can be a criminal offense, punishable by crucifixion.

A widespread assumption, which nearly everybody in our society accepts – the non-religious included – is that religious faith is especially vulnerable to offence and should be protected by an abnormally thick wall of respect, in a different class from the respect that any human being should pay to any other.

And since the griefstruck rarely know what they need or want, only what they don't, offence-giving and offence-taking are common.

I was determined to be polite, unoffendable, persistent, boring, friendly: in other words, to lie.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.

For granting we have sinned, and that the offence Of man is made against Omnipotence, Some price that bears proportion must be paid, And infinite with infinite be weighed.

Honestly some folk will take offence at anything, I met a bloke with no legs this morning while at the bus stop, all I asked was "How are you getting on?"

Let not that man presumes to look for mercy from God who offends His Holy Mother!

Don't let your pride or a lack of courage stand in the way of saying you're sorry to people you may have offended.

Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.

You're not a morning person, are you? (Simone) I'm a Dream-Hunter/demon. By my very nature I'm nocturnal. That big yellow ball in the sky offends me to the very core of my being. (Xypher)

The only 'natural enemies' are those who take one's very nature as an offence.

The human creature, humiliated and offended in ways that are inconceivable to the mind and heart, defies the blind and deaf divinity.

That which offends you only weakens you. Being offended creates the same destructive energy that offended you in the first place- so transcend your ego and stay in peace.

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

Our offensive philosophy is to simply find a way to get the ball into the hands of our team's best player.