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• Never insult anyone by accident.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Comeback, Accidents

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• The distortions and insults about organized religion will continue unabated as long as our popular culture continues its overall campaign against judgment and values. A war against standards leads logically and inevitably to hostility to religion because it is religious faith that provides the ultimate basis for all standards.

  Michael Medved

  Christian, Religious, War

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• In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd for protection, you conform in word and deed, and you insist vehemently that everybody else shall think, speak, and act together. And you fix your adoring gaze upon the State, with a truly filial look, as upon the Father of the flock.

  Randolph Bourne

  Country, War, Father

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• Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

  Oscar Levant

  Funny, Sarcastic, Loneliness

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• I don't feel I insult people. I try and get to the facts and I don't feel I insult people.

  Donald Trump

  People, Trying, Facts

  "The 21 best exchanges in The Washington Post's Trump interviews" by Nick Gass and Nolan D. McCaskill, www.politico.com. August 30, 2016.

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• Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands that the brother over the border shall be sharply watched and brought to book every time he does us a hurt or offends us with an insult.

  Mark Twain

  Hurt, Brother, Book

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• Do you suppose that it is within your power to insult me? You evidently are not aware to whom you are speaking? Do you imagine that the envenomed spittle of five hundred little gentlemen of your type, heaped one upon another, would succeed in slobbering so much as the tips of my august toes?

  Marcel Proust

  August, Gentleman, Littles

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.2149, Delphi Classics

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• If men's minds were like dominoes, surely his would be the double blank.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Men, Mind, Would Be

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• It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement.

  Aristotle

  Ignorance, Men, Self

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• To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Book, Reading, Liberty

  "A Treatise on Man: His Intellectual Faculties & His Education", Vol. I by Claude Adrien Helvetius, translated by W. Hooper, 1777.

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• Why don't you do the world a favour. Pull your bottom lip up over your head and swallow.

  Walter Matthau

  Over You, World, Lips

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• Whatever insults my state insults me.

  Preston Brooks

  Comeback, States

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• Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Moral, Kind, Crime

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Order, Envy, Honor

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• I don't know anything about this man. Anyhow, I only know two things about him. One is, he has never been in jail, and the other is, I don't know why.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Two, Jail

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7187, Delphi Classics

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• Blacks concede that hurrawing, jibing, jiving, signifying, disrespecting, cursing, even outright insults might be acceptable under particular conditions, but aspersions cast against one's family call for immediate attack.

  Maya Angelou

  Family, Might, Cursing

  Maya Angelou (2010). “All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes”, p.11, Vintage

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• Racism is stupid. It’s an insult to God, arrogantly implying that God goofed-up when he chose to make us all different.

  Rick Warren

  Stupid, Racism, Different

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jul 17, 2013

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• Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune.

  Henry Fielding

  Missing, Looks, Fortune

  Henry Fielding (2007). “Tom Jones”, p.632, Collector's Library

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• An insult is either sustained or destroyed, not by the disposition of those who insult, but by the disposition of those who bear it.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Bears, Disposition, Destroyed

  Saint John Chrysostom, Edward Budge, Charles Marriott (1842). “To the People of Antioch”, p.51

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• Never insult a writer. You may find yourself immortalized in ways you may not appreciate.

  Garrison Keillor

  Appreciate, Finding Yourself, May

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• Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?

  Mason Cooley

  Want, Flattery, Flattering

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• Don't argue. Never deign to deny. Meet insults with laughter.

  Leigh Bardugo

  Laughter, Arguing, Deny

  Leigh Bardugo (2013). “Siege and Storm: Chapters 1-5”, p.187, Macmillan

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• An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.

  Aristophanes

  Men, Wicked, Honest

  Aristophanes (2013). “The Eleven Comedies”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• To insult a friend implies that you respect his masculinity enough to know he can take it without acting like a crybaby. The swapping of insults, like the fighting between brothers, becomes the seal of the male bonding.

  Frank Pittman

  Brother, Fighting, Acting

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• When someone wrongs us, we rarely (if ever) want to do the same thing back. Why? Because we want to do something more harmful. Likewise, when someone insults us, our instinct is to search for words that will be more insulting.Revenge always escalates.

  Rob Bell

  Revenge, Insulting, Want

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