Offended Quotes

I don't approve of censorship. I like the French theatre idea. Put on the play, and if the audience doesn't care for it, or feels offended by it, they rip up the seats.

Getting offended is a great way to avoid answering questions that make you sound dumb.

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.

Those who are determined to be 'offended' will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.

Getting offended is the bait of Satan for the believer.

Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.

I used to hold back because people would get offended, but now I'm like, 'You're going to hear me, regardless. Whether you accept what I have to say or not is on you.'

It's impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.

The way to stop political correctness is to not do it. If someone says, You offended me then you say I don't care! If they're offended by the truth, that's their issue!

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

The only right we do not and should not have in a liberal democracy is a right not to be offended.

Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention.

When God's justice falls, we are offended because we think God owes perpetual mercy. We must not take His grace for granted. We must never lose our capacity to be amazed by grace

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.

That is the most confusing and insane thing to me, when people get offended on behalf of another group.

Just because we feel offended doesn't mean we must be offended. Feelings are indicators not dictators.

If someone has offended you, start sowing forgiveness. You may need some yourself someday.

Stay focused instead of getting offended or off track by others.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

We insist on near perfection in everyone except ourselves. But if our course is questioned we become offended.

I'm a bit of a worrier, to an extreme. I'll crack a joke, then worry if I've offended someone - even when they're laughing. I have a guilt complex, always worrying.

We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves.

An offended audience member repeating a comedian's act from memory is worse than, literally, anything.

If you get offended by words - by noises we make with our mouths - it means you were raised by bad parents.

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

When people are convinced you want something FOR them rather than something FROM them, they are less likely to be offended when you challenge them.

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

None are as offended as those who contrive offense.

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it.

What other people think of you is not your business. If you start to make that business your business, you will be offended for the rest of your life.

It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

I don't know why they gave me a knighthood - though it's very nice of them - but I only ever use the title in the U.S. The Americans insist on it and get offended if I don't.

Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.

Blessed is he or she who avoids being offended.

In America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously.

Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture.

My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities

Those who want to be offended don't have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them.

A date once leaned in to kiss me, and he ended up kissing my cheek. He was a little offended, but I didn't want to kiss him just to not hurt his feelings.

You can call us rednecks if you want. We're not offended, 'cause we know what we're all about. We get up and go to work, we get up and go to church, and we get up and go to war when necessary.

If you get offended by my music, don't listen to it.

No one should be offended - that's not my style.

I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.

Offended self-love never forgives.

Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism.

It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.

A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament.