Quotes About Affront

Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront…He therefore who has learned rightly to be in anxiety has learned the most important thing.

Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.

Change' - Obama's election mantra - is a direct, in-your-face affront to the very vision of our Founding Fathers.

The disparities of income and wealth in the world today are an affront to any reflective person.

The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American, and a threat to every private sector job in this country.

September 2011 Salafis were calling for the covering of Egypt's pharaonic monuments because they were an affront to its Islamist identity.

Perjury before Congress is perjury to the American people and an affront to the fundamental principles of our republic and the rule of law. Such behavior cannot be tolerated.

For some, including Nicholas II, the mere existence of a prime minister was an affront to autocracy.63

As editor, I think we need to act more decisively on what kind of material appears on the 'Guardian'. Those who argue that this is an affront to freedom of speech miss the point. That freedom counts for little if it is used to silence others.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

Modern slavery is a barbaric crime. Each and every case is a both a tragedy and an affront to our values of decency and kindness.

eyeing my face in that same accusatory way I've seen my entire life. As if I had begged in vitro for a birthmark, this personal affront to his sanitized, temperature-controlled world.

Torture and other forms of cruel or humiliating treatment are an affront to humanity, and the physical and psychological scars can last a lifetime.

With so much of music blurring the lines between ersatz and authenticity, at least the 'Rock Band' game is a tribute to rock rather than an affront.

It is an affront to our present, and it is a bad prescription for our future. History cannot be changed. It cannot be moved like a statue. What is done is done.

Why did you laugh right before you lost consciousness." "Death's an adventure. I lived big. Rigor mortis makes your face stick. So, who knew how to thaw me?" "Death's an insult." "At least an affront," I agree.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

Hundreds had come to the castle gates to bear witness to the burning of the Seven. The smell in the air was ugly. Even for soldiers, it was hard not to feel uneasy at such an affront to the gods most had worshiped all their lives.

Jack supposed that a very big and old crocodile must take a certain pride in his work, viz. swallowing and digesting whatever came along, and that an attempt to revoke a meal by yanking it out must be viewed, by such a Reptile, as a very serious affront. In any event it led to an amount of thrashing.

A creditor is worst than a master; for a master owns only your physical presence, whereas a creditor owns your dignity and may affront it.

In the best of all possible worlds, art would be unnecessary. Its offer of restorative, placative therapy would go begging a patient. The professional specialization involved in its making would be presumption. The generalities of its applicability would be an affront. The audience would be the artist and their life would be art.

It is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans and an affront to our Republic to spy on the Senate.