Offending Quotes

Offending Quote of the day

Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, speak without offending.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.

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

The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it's chiseled in bronze.

Your true friends dont shy away from keeping you in check because your wellbeing is more important to them than even your friendship and they'd rather risk offending you than watch you harm yourself.

Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.

If you are not offending some Pharisees, you are not being effective.

Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way.

Jesus's teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing , religious people of his day.

If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

If you are not offending people, then you are not an evangelist.

The great improvement of the radio over the telephone is that it may be turned off without offending the speaker.

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

The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.

Be Yourself -The man who is neither bent upon pleasing his fellows nor afraid of offending them will enjoy great peace.

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

I am disappointed to find myself accused in some papers of supplying the offending sweets, particularly as I am a fruit pastille man.

Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse

I'm really proud ofGunsmoke. We put on a good show every week-one that families could all watch together without offending anyone.

As a well-known great man would have said if he had thought of it, "Don't go around offending people just because it can be done sitting down."

The fear of offending can be stronger than the fear of pain

Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits; the other recreates and revives them.

If Christianity is really true it will be offending and correcting you somewhere.

That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.

I don't see myself as offending people.

Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of offending culture, religion or traditions.

A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They've been offending other people for centuries.

I'm not afraid to take on somebody or say something that somebody will find offensive because unfortunately in comedy, you can't say anything really good without offending somebody.

You can say the nastiest things about yourself without offending anyone.

It's very irresponsible as a parent to follow Tipper Gore or the Religious Right's advice and just take the offending CD or game away from the kid without discussing it.

I’m sorry, my lady,” said Geric, rubbing his arm. “But I failed to force an apology out of the offending goose.

There's a manner of speaking you use while lawyering. A manner as affected and rife with artifice as your average campaign speech, with a similar fear of offending.

I'll take on somebody if they're offending the entire culture, not just offending me.

I don't want to go about offending people, that's not my plan.

It's impossible to go through life not offending people. All you have to do is basically have an opinion on anything, and you're gonna offend people.

We kill with antibiotics and antiseptics, and if our slaughter is ineffectual we use surgery to expel the offending organ from our presence. We destroy the body in order to save it.

I've never had any trouble opposing people I've been close to. I've never worried about offending or bothering people I feel strongly about.

How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?

Let's not become so worried about not offending anybody that we lose the ability to distinguish between respect and paranoia.

We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.

May we dedicate our lives to serving the Lord and not worry about offending the devil.

[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity.

don't be angry with the gentleman for thinking, whatever be the cause, for I assure you he makes no common practice of offending in that way.

How much pain a person detains may be proportionate to the pain they spare others when they'd rather hurt than hurt another.

I am against justice … whenever it is carried out by a mob.