Words matter. These are the best Offending Quotes from famous people such as Paul Sinha, Edmund Phelps, Ken Curtis, Tomi Lahren, Mike Scully, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Ive always been one of those comics who doesnt say much on panel shows because Im terrified of saying the wrong thing or offending the wrong person.
‘Egalitarians’ who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth.
I’m really proud of Gunsmoke. We put on a good show every week – one that families could all watch together without offending anyone.
We live in a time of safe spaces, where micro-aggressions are monitored, where offending someone is the ultimate sin, where white people can’t slip up, even once, even by accident.
I think if you’re not offending somebody somewhere, then your show is probably just very bland and boring.
I don’t want to go about offending people; that’s not my plan.
If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
Whitey is uptight about offending blacks without really knowing what offends blacks.
Offending someone’s religious sensibilities can never justify a violent response. There are no ‘but’ qualifiers, and the sooner that this lesson is internalized, the rosier our future will be.
The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It’s where we learn to share; it’s where we learn to argue without offending. It’s just too critical to let go, as we’ve been so blithely doing.
I believe the public therefore expect the justice system to focus on rehabilitation to reduce the risk of subsequent offending – and the likelihood of them becoming a victim of crime.
I wouldn’t really call myself a Jazz singer I think it’s offending to real Jazz singers to call me a Jazz singer.
Once you feel loved by the universe, you’re already accepted, and you’re not really concerned about offending people.
I often look ridiculous in Japan. There’s really no way to eat in Japan, particularly kaiseki in a traditional ryokan, without offending the Japanese horribly. Every gesture, every movement is just so atrociously wrong, and the more I try, the more hilarious it is.
You can’t always worry about offending people.
The high-flying rhetoric of ‘Making America Great Again’ frankly appeals to me. It appeals to many people. But you’ve got to back that up with substance, and you’ve got to quit offending people who may not agree with you.
I delight in offending people. I think the grievance brigade, victimhood, the idea that hurt feelings are some kind of special currency – I think that needs to come to an end.
The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going home at night and criticizing it. I would be curious about what I’d write if I didn’t have to worry about offending.
Good grief, we’re getting offended by everything these days! People can’t say anything without offending somebody.
I don’t really think it’s appropriate for me to be picking and choosing in the primaries. It’s pretty dumb politics for a Republican to choose between Republicans in a contested primary because obviously you’re going to be offending some people.
The wider your readership, the greater the chances of offending your readers.
Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.
It’s completely beyond comprehension that you just can’t say anything without offending somebody or the other.
As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.
God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we’ve done or we’re about to do. At times like this, it’s wise to prayerfully consider whether we’re offending God with our actions.
Terms such as ‘microaggression,’ describing an inadvertent act of offense, have entered the college lexicon, empowering an atmosphere of prior restraint on speech. And many colleges are also disinviting speakers in fear of offending certain elements of their student communities.
In politics, you must learn to say ‘no’ without offending people. That is an art that one must master: to satisfy a person even when you have to say ‘no’ to him.
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.
There are some really good experiments with the youth offending service, joining up youth offending teams with the youth justice board, and good local authority and primary care trusts working together.
But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.
I don’t worry about offending people – I think most people are a lot more robust than some other people give them credit for.
If you do a serious presidential bio, you want to supply the reader with maximum material because otherwise you’re offending the reader. A president for many people is a serious thing and they want to know everything.
There is a demographic catastrophe happening in Europe that nobody wants to talk about, that we daren’t bring up because we are so cagey about not offending people racially.
I’m still very much an atheist, except that I don’t necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that’s a weird thing that I’m struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious.
Research has shown that the availability of mental health care prior, during, and after imprisonment reduces violent offending drastically.
But the longer I’m in the business, you see a lot of times these screenplays have been rewritten 5 times and you’re not really offending an author.
We don’t like offending anyone.
If you’re not offending one group of people, you’re not entertaining the other.
Like, my feelings on religion are starting to morph. I’m still very much an atheist, except that I don’t necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that’s a weird thing that I’m struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious.
