That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board.
What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside.
Sometimes I’m convinced that one day I’m going to draw the cartoon that offends everyone, and that’ll be the end.
I don’t know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don’t want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we’re not ready to see it used in ways that offend us.
The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That’s approaching evil.
I think the biggest insult, the worst way you can offend a Mexican, is to insult their mother. A mother is the most sacred thing in life.
I really fancy Harrison Ford. I’ve got to say I think he’s really divine. He’s, like, an older man, I guess, although he’s not really that old, obviously. I don’t want to offend him.
Humour or comedy should not offend anyone.
I brought this case because I am an atheist and this offends me, and I have the right to bring up my daughter without God being imposed into her life by her schoolteachers.
With anything you put out there, you’re going to offend somebody, but most people get that it’s a joke, that I’m playing a character, and that I’m actually making fun of what I’m saying by saying it.
For some reason, I tend to take on the stuff that people are really passionate about. If you make a list of people you don’t want to offend, it’s Vonnegut readers, comic book fans, and Coen brothers enthusiasts.
What offends me more than something sexist is something poorly written or unfunny or cliched.
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
Ok, here goes: I’m going to see how many people I can offend by suggesting that maybe many little gay boys, like many little girls, are made up of sugar and spice and everything nice.
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
I don’t want to offend people.
I found Jerusalem to be a tourist trap. I hope that I don’t offend anyone by saying that.
I think you can judge a man by the size of what offends him.
The biggest terrorist is the God of the Quran. I know this is very dangerous and this will offend many people. The more you follow the steps of the prophet of Islam and the God of Islam, the more you get close to being a terrorist.
Ever since taking office, the Obama administration has sought to accommodate Islamist demands that freedom of expression be curbed, lest it offend Muslims and stoke violence. For example, in 2009, the administration co-sponsored a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution along those lines.
Even to this day, when someone says something derogatory about Boy George, it still upsets and offends me. Part of me will always be quite attached to him.
Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.
I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.
Can a democratic nation fight a War on Terror and at the same time bend over backward so as not to offend a few visitors’ rights?
I don’t see how can I offend Mexicans with the truth. It is what Mexicans want to hear.
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
I have no wish to offend, but I do think that holy cows need challenging.
Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing’s funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.
Nowhere does our Constitution say we cannot say something about another’s religion. Nowhere does our Constitution say we cannot say anything that offends someone.
My father always wanted to be ‘Col-bear.’ He lived in the same town as his father, and his father didn’t like the idea of the name with the French pronunciation. So my father said to us, ‘Do what you want. You’re not going to offend anybody.’ And he was dead long before I made my decision.
Prohibiting any words not approved of as ‘politically correct’ – that’s not progressive. Putting ‘trigger warnings’ on books, movies, music, anything that might offend people – that’s not progressive, either.
If you’re gay, that doesn’t mean I want to discriminate against you, belittle or bully you, abuse or offend you. Not at all. I don’t want to go back to the dark days of criminalisation and the imprisonment of gay men and women; of Section 28 and legalised discrimination.
My secret to comedy is don’t offend anybody. Don’t offend anybody ever. That’s my secret.
Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect – but maybe the universe doesn’t insist on cause and effect.
I don’t want to offend nobody, and I don’t rub anybody the wrong way. That’s a part of growing up.
Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information.
There has been an obvious effort to play it safe, to make ‘Bonanza’ a good family show that would offend no one and hit a consistent level of mediocrity.
I like Jacques Derrida; I think he’s funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I know that that offends other philosophers; they think he’s not taking things seriously, but he comes up with some marvellous puns. Why shouldn’t you have a bit of fun while dealing with the deepest issues of the mind?
Let’s face it: It’s difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.
Political correctness is as exploitable as any other progressive ideal, but its aim is to stifle the incessant noise of those who flap their careless lips without a thought about those they might offend and why that might be important.
It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.
Every comic says things that are going to offend someone, so we all have to defend each other with this stuff.
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