Insult Quotes - Page 13

• We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths.

  Randall Robinson

  Suffering, Response, Dies

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• I never met a white person till I was a grown man. I never went to school with a white till I was twenty-six years old, at Harvard Law School. The insult of segregation was searing and unforgettable. It has left a great scar, and will be with me for the rest of my life.

  Randall Robinson

  School, Men, Years

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• It often is a terrible insult to some families if one of the kids turns out to be an artist and that's one way to really shake up the family if you haven't got nerve enough to turn into a homosexual.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Kids, Artist, Often Is

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• Donald [Trump], you're not going to be able to insult your way to the presidency. That's not going to happen.

  Jeb Bush

  Able, Way, Trump

  Jeb Bush's remarks during the CNN-Facebook Republican Presidential Second Debate at the Venetian Las Vegas hosted by Wolf Blitzer, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• Like all of you I'm angry. I'm angry at what's happening to our nation. Citizens, it's time to take our country back. Bombastic insults wont take it back. Political rhetoric that promises a lot and delivers little, won't take it back. All of our problems can be solved. All of our wounds can be healed by a tested leader who is willing to fight for the character of our nation.

  Carly Fiorina

  Country, Character, Fighting

  Rush Transcript second debate: CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• No one seems to have learned, or can remember, the magic words that calm people when they are frightened or threatened: "I'm sorry; I didn't see you; are you all right?" The inability to speak these words, I observe, goes right along with a propensity for mindless insults.

  Carol Tavris

  Sorry, People, Magic

  Carol Tavris (1989). “Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent... I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children.

  Ronan Farrow

  Children, Father, My Family

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• They always say that Albert Einstein was a genius. Then how come when anyone ever calls you that, it's an insult? 'You don't know where you parked the car? Good job, Einstein.' I don't think we're honoring that man properly by using his name in vain in parking lots.

  Brian Regan

  Jobs, Men, Thinking

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• The Republican front-runner, has made a name for himself in the last months by trafficking prejudice and paranoia. His latest insult is his call to stop all Muslims from entering the United States.

  Rachel Maddow

  Names, United States, Prejudice

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• Though I never shout at Labour Members or insult them, I can never understand the psychology of some of our men who endeavoured to reason with them.

  Neville Chamberlain

  Men, Psychology, Reason

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• They who load us with insults and ignominies give us the means of acquiring treasures more precious than any that man can gain in this life.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Mean, Men, Giving

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• I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.

  Dick Cavett

  Art, Writing, Wonderful

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.192, Macmillan

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• It is a shameful thing to insult a child.

  Mark Twain

  Children, Shameful

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• What we saw with both Donald Trump and Marco Rubio, that their response, whenever you point to anything in their record, is just to yell, "Liar, liar, liar," and to get very personal and to make direct character attacks. And my approach, from the very beginning of this President's campaign, starting a year ago in 2015, is that I will not respond in kind. I do not intend to insult any of the candidates.

  Ted Cruz

  Liars, Character, Years

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

  Bernie Taupin

  Real, Lyric Poetry, Poet

  "Bernie Taupin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 2, 2012.

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• The United States is guilty. We're not treating people fairly. We're not treating people with dignity. Building a wall is an affront and an insult, and we have no right.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Wall, People, United States

  "America Leads the World in Goodness". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Beauty is there to be noticed. Too often it is taken for granted because we are moving too fast to let it in and allow it to deliver its message in us. We need to pay attention. To show indifference to beauty is an insult to its Creator.

  Luci Shaw

  Beauty, Moving, Taken

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• For God to prove himself on demand, physically, would be a grave disappointment, and the strongest Christians should be considerably grateful that he chooses not to do so. The skeptic endlessly demands proof, yet God refuses to insult the true intelligence of man, the '6th sense', the chief quality, the acumen which distinguishes man from the rest of creation, faith.

  Criss Jami

  Christian, Atheist, Disappointment

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.80, Criss Jami

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• It's not a face, but a personal insult.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Faces

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• For most Native Americans, there's no more offensive name in English. That non-Native folks think they get to measure or decide what offends us is adding insult to injury.

  Suzan Shown Harjo

  Native American, Thinking, Names

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• Whoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to capital punishment.

  Anjem Choudary

  Punishment, Messages, Subjects

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• Muslims consider the honor of the Prophet Muhammad to be dearer to them than that of their parents or even themselves. To defend it is considered to be an obligation upon them. The strict punishment if found guilty of this crime under sharia, the Islamic law, is capital punishment implementable by an Islamic State. This is because the Messenger Muhammad said, ‘Whoever insults a Prophet, kill him.’

  Anjem Choudary

  Islamic, Punishment, Law

  "Anjem Choudary says woman who organised Muhammed cartoon contest should face death penalty under Sharia Law" by Christopher Bucktin, www.mirror.co.uk. May 7, 2015.

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• As politicians we have to make very difficult decisions and one...is when freedom of speech actually insults public safety.

  Tulip Siddiq

  Safety, Decision, Freedom Of Speech

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• As an adult I generally feel this pressure to be thin, not from men, but from other women. As a silent or not-so-silent competition, a constant monitoring of who's thinner, comments about it - either compliments or veiled insults doesn't matter - it always drives me nuts.

  Kate Christensen

  Men, Nuts, Competition

  Source: therumpus.net

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• He who parades his virtues seldom leads the parade. He who puts up with insult invites injury. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Relaxation, Aimless Life, Virtue

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