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• Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us than are those of the whole human race. Hence we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Country, Revenge, Rights

  William Lloyd Garrison (1852). “Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...”, p.72

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• I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.

  Woody Allen

  Sarcastic, Horse, Sadism

  "Fictional character: Tiger Lily". " What's Up, Tiger Lily?", www.imdb.com. 1966.

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• People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Thinking, People

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.565, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity.

  Kathy Reichs

  Dignity, Humans, Ultimate

  Kathy Reichs (2006). “Break No Bones: A Novel”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone's so timid and afraid to insult anybody, but in the end, it's like we're all trying to please everyone. In the end, we please no one.

  Olivia Munn

  Trying, Ends, Please

  Interview with Jasper Anson, www.askmen.com.

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• The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

  Walter Lippmann

  Public Opinion, Citizens, Comeback

  Walter Lippmann (2007). “Public Opinion”, p.368, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. You insult her intelligence if you assume that a mere slogan and a few vapid adjectives will persuade her to buy anything. She wants all the information you can give her.

  David Ogilvy

  Giving, Wife, Vapid

  Confessions of an Advertising Man (1963) ch. 5

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• Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wall, Work, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2002). “The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde”, p.283, North Point Press

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• When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.

  Brennan Manning

  Men, Impossible, Honest

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.55, Multnomah

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• People thrive on positive reinforcement. They can take only a certain amount of criticism and you may lose them altogether if you criticize them in a personal way... you can make a point without being personal. Don't insult or belittle your people. Instead of getting more out of them you will get less

  Bill Walsh

  People, Coaching, Criticism

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• Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.

  Hillary Clinton

  Responsibility, Common Humanity, Violence

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• All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mirrors, Pyramids, Insulting

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Pyramids: A Novel of Discworld”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Praise, Virtue, Parliament

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• Playing the part of a charitable soul was only for those who were afraid of taking a stand in life. It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others and fight for your rights. It is always easier to hear an insult and not retaliate than have the courage to fight back against someone stronger than yourself; we can always say we're not hurt by the stones others throw at us, and it's only at night - when we're alone and our wife or our husband or our school friend is asleep - that we can silently grieve over our own cowardice.

  Paulo Coelho

  Courage, Hurt, Husband

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• Insult me all you want. Judge me as much as you want. Say what you think, everything you want. But one thing. Dont touch my fans.

  Michael Jackson

  Thinking, Judging, Fans

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• Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Music, Food, Literature

  Quoted in The NewYork Times, 16 Nov 1967.

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• I don't want to get into an insult fight with Donald Trump.

  Hillary Clinton

  Fighting, Want, Trump

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low, bind them in marriage and then chastise them with menial service for life, or insults, or blows.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Fall, Blow, Men

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition”, p.94, Zed Books

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• It's hilarious a lot of times. You have a conversation with someone, and he's like, 'You speak so well!' I'm like, 'What do you mean? Do you understand that's an insult?

  Jay-Z

  Mean, Speak, Like You

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• I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

  Charles Darwin

  Funny, Dull, Reading Books

  1860 The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, vol.1.

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• The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort

  Katherine Dunn

  Lying, Comfort, Truth Is

  FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Feb 17, 2017

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• Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of all propagandas -- those insults to human nature -- is carried on by the most expert psychological methods -- for instance, by always repeating a lie.

  George Santayana

  Confused, Lying, Competition

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

  Clarence Darrow

  Funny, Witty, Powerful

  Speech at Scopes trial, Dayton, Tenn., 15 July 1925

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• Reclaiming the word fat was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead replaced it with truth, because the truth is that I am fat, and that's ok. So now when someone calls me fat, I agree, whereas before I would get embarrassed and emotional.

  Beth Ditto

  Emotional, Empowering, Progress

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2007.

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• People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

  Milan Kundera

  Past, People, Political

  The Book of Laughter and Forgetting pt. 1, sec. 17 (1980) (translation by Michael Henry Heim)

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