Top 141 Offended Quotes

To all the women that I’ve offended, I had no intention to be offensive, to violate any physical or emotional space. I was trying to establish personal relationships, but the combination of awkwardness and hubris led to behavior that I think many found offensive.

You have the right to free speech as an American – you have no right to use YouTube to do it. And the mobs that exist can form very quickly if they are offended by your presence there.

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.

A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement.

I don’t consider myself a martial-arts star. I’d be offended and disappointed if I got a reputation as a martial-arts star.

No one, and I mean no one, gets personally offended by someone saying a food that they like is just okay – as if I had just attacked one of their character traits – unless ‘character trait’ is exactly what they consider liking that food to be.

Make the videos that you want to watch. Don’t think about who is going to be upset or offended.

I don’t play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word ‘jazz’ only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that’s fine.

Obama is the rare Democrat who talks easily about faith and values and who does so without upsetting those offended by the mixture of religion and politics.

I understand the power of symbols, and if I had anything on my house that seriously offended someone, I’d take it down if for no other reason than common courtesy.

I don’t get offended and am outspoken and I’m a people person.

Pity the poor senator or representative trying to stay alive in the political jungle. At every turn, there’s a danger: a constituent who actually wants something done. Or worse, a campaign donor who might be offended by that something.

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

I don’t expect people to know my name. I don’t get offended if people don’t know me.

When I first joined Google in October of 2005, I was warned that I shouldn’t be offended if people were doing their e-mails while a meeting was going on.

Growing up in the South, we say ‘Yes Ma’am’ and ‘No Ma’am.’ Here in Hollywood, people get offended.

I was much less offended than others were by the CIA’s interrogations in the years after September 11.

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

I went to this arts high school in Greenville, S.C. In speech class, the teacher, a white man, would say, ‘You’re talking ghetto. Don’t talk ghetto.’ I’m not only offended, but I’m confused because while there’s nothing wrong with people who come from the projects or the ghetto, that’s actually not my experience.

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.

There is no right to not be offended, nor should there be.

The root of nearly every free-speech infringement on campuses across the country is that someone – almost always a liberal – has been offended or has sniffed out a potential offense in the making.

I think too many people are offended by stuff that doesn’t matter.

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.

If, as a Spaniard, I am so often offended by the stereotypes that abound regarding my country, how can I accept and repeat the ones that fall even more heavily upon Israel?

No matter what I put out, somebody will be offended. I made a video on 10 reasons to smile, and it has dislikes. That should be an indication that there will be some who get offended no matter what you do. The best you can do as an entertainer or as someone who performs is to follow what you believe in.

My words have always either attracted a strong mind or offended a weak one.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

I’m trying to take drag back to its down-and-dirty roots where people get offended at first, and then they’re like, ‘Oh my God, this crazy queen.’

I’m so used to my appearance, I don’t feel either offended or pleased by it. To be honest, I am not madly interested.

Whenever I make a blasphemous joke, I always say that I believe in a God big enough to know that I’m just kidding. How can God not know that I’m kidding? And also, how could God be offended at a thing that he made not believing in him?

I do walk with a bit of a swagger. I do swear a lot. And people are going to be offended by that. But in this PC world, you can’t be honest.

Darcy, the heroine of ‘Something Blue,’ is quite shallow and opinionated. At one point, she commented that she dislikes ‘gingers,’ i.e., men with red hair. I received several emails from fiery redheads who said they were offended by ‘my’ comments. I had to remind them that it is fiction.

You don’t get to tell people why they can’t be offended. That’s not how that works.

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

I was raised evangelical, so if you want to get offended, let’s get offended. I have a master’s degree in being offended.

Whatever else people knew about Donald Trump going into 2016, it was obvious he was strong. He said what he thought, no matter who it offended.

I am highly distressed and offended by what Donald Trump has been saying, and I don’t think his nomination is good for the country. I think he would be a terrible president and terrible for our country.

You constantly felt like you wanted to protect her and that you wanted to save her and that’s what made her attractive more so to women than even to men. That’s why she’s still with us. Marilyn Monroe never offended a woman.

We played a gig and we had a song that was offensive to people of the Jewish persuasion, and we led off with it, and they were offended by it, and that was that.

If I met a girl, I’d tell her straight up, ‘I might run into someone else I want to go out with; don’t be offended.’ Was that acceptable to them? It had to be. There were enough girls. They were expendable.

Some people are weak in their faith and testimonies but are not even aware of how precarious their situation is. Many of them likely would be offended at the suggestion.

I’m not here to impose Sharia law, and I’m not here to have a message about disability being inspirational – I’m here to make people laugh. But when I can layer things and make people not only laugh but question, make people not only laugh but be offended… I have to do that.

Good grief, we’re getting offended by everything these days! People can’t say anything without offending somebody.

I had a multicultural exposure; that’s why I don’t believe in a particular religion. I have respect for most because I grew up surrounded by so many. I don’t judge people by that, and I feel extremely offended when people categorise based on race, religion, or gender.

I think the ‘New York Times’ would rather be offended than dead.

I would say that while most Muslims take offense at the portrayal of the Prophet Muhammad in cartoons, they would never resort to violence. It is a minority of extremist Muslims who take such actions, and they do it for political and tactical reasons far beyond just being offended.

I think my patriotism is strong enough to not be offended when somebody takes a knee during the anthem. That’s not something I take personally.

I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

I didn’t necessarily want to be famous growing up, but I knew I would be a good famous person because I’m not offended if somebody comes up to me and knows things about me and wants to engage me in a conversation.

Europeans are easily offended by errors in their titles or full names. Their exasperation is equal to that shown by Americans when the department store fouls up their bills.

I apologize if anybody was offended by anything I said.

Offendedness is just about the last shared moral currency in our country. And, I’m sorry, but it’s really annoying. We don’t discuss ideas or debate arguments, we try to figure out who is most offended.

See, I don’t really go after girls. Most of the girlfriends I’ve had have come after me. So it’s really funny when girls get offended because I don’t hit on them.