Top 35 Offence Quotes

People seem to take as much offence as they possibly can these days – it’s almost a new type of greed, a new kind of road rage.

The reason why Broken Men only became Untouchables was because in addition to being Buddhists, they retained their habit of beef-eating, which gave additional ground for offence to the Brahmins to carry their new-found love and reverence to the cow to its logical conclusion.

The idea of what’s acceptable and what’s shocking, that’s where I investigate. I mean, you can’t be on ‘Top Gear,’ where your only argument is that it’s all just a joke and anyone who takes offence is an example of political correctness gone mad, and then not accept the counterbalance to that.

An O’Toole government will pass a Freedom of Movement Act that will make it a criminal offence to block a railway, airport, port, or major road, or to block the entrance to a business or household in a way that prevents people from lawfully entering or leaving.

The experience of playing EuroLeague ball gave myself a different perspective on just the way the game’s played. Every possession matters. Everything has to be on point. Offence, defensively – everybody has to be connected.

I took great offence at a journalist who called me blokeish. I have always seen myself as metrosexual and in touch with my feminine side.

Humans are nervous, touchy creatures and can be easily offended. Many are deeply insecure. They become focused and energized by taking offence; it makes them feel meaningful and alive.

I’m a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die – it’s a major offence.

A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender themselves and their property unreservedly to its arbitrary will, can practice any and all special and particular oppressions it pleases.

In Australia, we point out a person’s weaknesses as a way of saying ‘I see you and I accept you’. If you do that with Americans, they instantly take offence.

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.

I gotta continue within the offence and just understand it, pick and choose when to attack and things like that.

It is extremely hard to bring a claim for compensation against the police or the Crown Prosecution Service, even when a person has been charged with an offence and later cleared.

I was in Estonia when a professor asked me if I was aware that making any criticism of the Red Army during the war was now an imprisonable offence. I was quite shaken.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

The merit of ‘The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,’ then – or its offence, depending where you stood – was not that it was authentic, but that it was credible.

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

I dislike hatred, offence, unkindness.

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

Imams must ridicule Caliphate fantasies. Exchange programmes between Muslim-only schools and non-Muslim-majority schools should be initiated. Community-based debates around these themes must no longer be shut down from fear of offence.

Controversy seems to be a by-product of what I do, rather like offence is the by-product of a dog urinating on the pavement. It just happens.

It’s good to be good at playing defence, but the best defence is a strong offence.

If you go into a police station and report a burglary the first question is not: ‘Are you telling the truth?’ If you are the victim of a sexual offence, very often in the past that has been the first question.

The strong should always permit the weak and aggrieved to talk, to bluster, and scold without taking offence; and if we had so acted, and exercised proper skill in the management of our affairs, Mexico and ourselves would, by this time, have quietly and peaceably settled all difficulties and been good friends.

Offence doesn’t concern me. It’s easier for people to get layups than it is to get stops on defence or a block.

In our society, which is multiracial and multi-religious, giving offence to another religious or ethnic group, race, language, or religion is always a very serious matter.

Any one of us could fall on hard times. Work and housing have the potential to be unstable, especially for those earning low wages or relying on family and friends. It should not be a criminal offence to sleep on the street.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

When I saw Air Boom perform, I went out of my mind. It was two guys with high-octane offence forming a team. It was exciting.

I fear a permanent Confederation will never be settled; tho the most material articles are I think got thro’, so as to give great offence to some, but to my Satisfaction.

I’m interested in offence and why people take offence in certain ways about certain things.

I take offence if I’m called arrogant, because I’ve been brought up in a family that does not endorse arrogance.

Offence is important; that’s how you know you care about things. Imagine a life where you’re not offended. So dull.

I think a bishop who doesn’t give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.

‘Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.