Top 105 Offend Quotes

I enjoy things that are relevant to me, like maths and science and ‘Countdown,’ and I don’t want to offend our viewers.

We’re segregating ourselves because we’re afraid we’re going to offend each other.

One of the things that comedy has given me over the years is a really good ability to laugh at myself and to not take things that don’t matter too much too seriously. I feel that very little offends me anymore and I’m really grateful for that because I think I was a pretty uptight little kid.

If we are going to have to worry all the time that we might offend some students’ sensibilities, we are not going to be able to teach in a way that actually matters. We’re not going to be able to teach about sex, gender, race, religion, or violence.

Sometimes, we feel like we don’t want to offend people, but there are times that we need to express ourselves without fear that somebody is going to shut us down simply because we have differing opinions. That’s how we grow.

If you say, ‘I don’t want to offend anyone,’ then don’t get on stage. Just ask yourself, ‘Do I think it is right? Do I think it is offensive? And do I think that everyone is okay to hear this? If I truly believe this, then I should go and do this.’

Fashion is instant. It makes you feel something the second you see it on a body… whether you love it or hate it, or it offends you, or it makes you laugh or cry.

Unfortunately, if the man who leaves the prison gates is just as likely or – as is sometimes grievously the case – more likely to offend as he was when he entered them, then we fail not only the individual but public safety as well.

‘The Truth About Lorin Jones’ will undoubtedly shock and offend as many readers as it will amuse, since it dares to make fun of feminism – of its manners, if not its politics.

Whitey is uptight about offending blacks without really knowing what offends blacks.

You can only make the best thing you can make, and if it offends purists, or angers certain critics, you can only have done your best.

I’m not an abrasive person. I do speak my mind, but my goal is never to offend. I don’t intentionally want to strike a chord.

I didn’t mean to offend anybody. It’s my filter. I constantly work on it.

It takes an awful lot to offend me.

We do not want to sell anything that offends people.

John Kerry didn’t out me, nor did he offend or attack me by calling me a lesbian. I certainly couldn’t be offended by the truth.

I’ve never really been one to try to be politically correct. I just feel truth is truth, and sometimes I probably offend some people.

If I wouldn’t offend my religion or God, why would I want to offend an audience because in effect those people are being watched over by the same person.

If there’s anything that offends me, especially if it’s towards my family, I just block them. I don’t accept that. I don’t get upset because I like to focus on the positive.

I don’t believe I can offend you in a comedy club. I don’t believe I can offend you in a concert. A comedy club is a place where you work out material; you’re trying material.

Sometimes a nickname is used instead of the real name. But a nickname may offend either the one named or the parents who gave the name.

Smooth functioning of social life has always depended on the recognition of certain basic limits to behavior. We cannot simply say or do anything we wish, or offend people, without paying consequences – isolation, ostracism, etc.

A woman doing comedy doesn’t offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.

I believe I have a calling. Do you know what that calling is? To stand up in a new and hard core, radical way for the Lord. In the process, if I insult a couple of people, if I offend a couple of people, and if I got to shake it up a little bit, as long as it is led by the Holy Spirit, amen.

I know I probably offend some people. I have been talking a little too much so I’m trying not to talk as much.

We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.

Every time I give an interview, I seem to offend somebody in my family, usually my mother.

This is a revolution, damnit! We’re going to have to offend somebody!

What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.

When revising, consider whether you have written anything that will hurt or offend a member of your immediate family. If the answer is no, go back and add something.

I have a daughter, I have a wife, and I would never sing something offensive to others – or, specifically, to offend any women.

The don’t-ask-don’t-tell approach to plot and character that ‘The Hurt Locker’ relies on to set itself in motion doesn’t offend me politically. It offends me as a storyteller.

When a man crosses his legs and the trouser leg rides up to show the hairy shins, it offends my eyes.

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

I need my comedy to offend. That’s my personal views.

I think anyone who has an opinion, and voices it, will offend someone.

Obviously I don’t want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct – I’m not going to not do something because it may be politically incorrect. At some point, the metaphors and allegories break down. They disappear, and you just have science fiction.

I’m convinced that quite a lot of young people, when they get in trouble with the law, it’s a cry for help there. Because it’s not that they go out to offend. It’s that their behaviour is self-parading, it’s the big ‘I’. And sometimes that means they’re really lacking in confidence.

We do appreciate that we have a very conservative audience and we do try to walk the fine line of that and not offend anybody.

You can only offend me if you mean something to me.

My mother always told me never offend a man’s ego and never hurt a woman’s emotions – an advice I will not forget to pass on to my daughter.

Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now, when the world is at war with terrorism and the United States cannot afford to offend the sensibility of our Turkish ally.

Everything that’s said against me offends me, whether it’s true or not.

Don’t you think it’s kind-of cool to have a band that offends MTV, that puts out a video that real fans have to dig around for, or stay up late to see?

How many people have had starter marriages? For some reason, mine really offends people.

I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.

It offends me when people do useless work.

Don’t break me up – I wouldn’t offend any person, be they black, Asian or whatever.

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.

I’m like Madonna, I’m not afraid to offend.

As corny as it sounds, and not to sound like a hippie, I think there are these spirit forces in nature, and we have to be careful not to offend them.

It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.

Celibacy used to offend family-values conservatism; now it offends equally against the opposite spirit.

I’d rather entertain people than offend them.

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

That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God’s will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.

If you asked a team of expert psychologists and sociological researchers to come up with a design that was sure to infuriate and offend liberals in America, they’d probably come up with what we call the Great Seal.

I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.

We take a lot of care with lyrics because we don’t want to offend anybody.

I don’t like to use the words ‘real women,’ honestly. I like to use the word ‘woman.’ And I say that because there are so many women out there who are naturally thin or are naturally curvy, and I think when we start putting a label on the type of woman, it gets misconstrued and starts to offend people.

In their rush to placate everyone and offend no one – and in particular to pander to Islam – the Left wants to shut down Christianity.

It seems no matter what you say and how politically correctly and carefully you say it, you offend someone. Or at least I always do.

You should live hoping you are going to offend people, because then you’re doing something.