Insulting Quotes - Page 3

• America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Gun, Two, Qualms About

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• The English think soap is civilization.

  Heinrich von Treitschke

  Sarcastic, Thinking, Civilization

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• Too many people - some of them judges - seem to think that freedom of speech means freedom from consequences for what you have said. If you believe that, try insulting your boss when you go to work tomorrow. Better yet, try insulting your spouse before going to bed tonight.

  Thomas Sowell

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  "'Academic freedom'?" by Thomas Sowell, townhall.com. February 15, 2005.

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• It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money.

  Al Alvarez

  Insult, Easy, Persons

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• It's insulting when outsiders come in and tell a traumatized people what it will take for them to heal... People who have lived through a terrible conflict may be hungry and desperate, but they are not stupid. They often have very good ideas about how peace can evolve, and they need to be asked. That includes women. Most especially women.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Stupid, Ideas, People

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• I think you can be politically incorrect, but there's some responsibility with that. You've got to make sure that you are not condoning or bolstering any racial or other stereotypes. You've got to be free to make jokes, but just make sure...you don't want to go and black face somewhere to just prove a point. If it's insulting and offensive just for the sake of it that's problematic.

  Sacha Baron Cohen

  Responsibility, Thinking, Black

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority.

  John Lennon

  School, People, Tongue

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Always praise your kid even if he/she is unresponsive to learning. By insulting them and putting them down, you will only push them away and make them feel inadequate around other kids. Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects. Be patient. Just as there are ugly ducklings that turn into swans, there are rebellious kids that turn into serious innovators and hardcore intellectuals.

  Suzy Kassem

  Children, Kids, Swans

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• We must not mind insulting men, if by respecting them we offend God.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Men, Mind, Ifs

  Saint John Chrysostom, Graham Neville (1977). “Six Books on the Priesthood”, p.65, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• Thirty millions, mostly fools.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Funny, Humor, Fool

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• The hatred Americans have for their own government is pathological, if understandable. At one level it is simply thwarted greed: since our religion is making a buck, giving a part of that buck to any government is an act against nature.

  Gore Vidal

  Government, Giving, Hatred

  "The State of the Union". Esquire Magazine, May 1975.

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• Regarding fiction, our concern shouldn't be the author's origin (and of course I am forgetting the sales people right here), because that is actually merely a simplified, almost insulting judgment of the book by its cover - or rather by the name and origin of its author - an act of discrimination if we want to say it in a more provoking way, but at the least an act of ignorance and false empathy.

  Sasa Stanisic

  Book, Ignorance, Names

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Donald Trump you're never going to be president of the United States by insulting your way to the presidency.

  Carly Fiorina

  President, United States, Way

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I still feel pangs of remorse over an insidious habit I've had since I was a teenager. About three times a week, I attend estate auctions and make insulting, low-ball bids for prized heirlooms until I'm asked to leave.

  Dennis Miller

  Teenager, Auctions, Three

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• I don't mind personal insults, but when you insult the jokes that I tell you're insulting Fred Allen, Bob Hope, Burns and Allen, Trevor McGee and Molly Picon.

  Milton Berle

  Mind, Bob, Jokes

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• Whether it's a professional, academic keeping people out by using certain mystifying language, or technologists presenting their work as incredibly complicated, no one can understand it (especially not "moms," who are always invoked as the ultimate know-nothings, which is incredibly insulting to a whole lot of people).

  Astra Taylor

  Mom, People, Language

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People always want to compare their dogs to having kids. That's insulting. First of all, nobody has a dog because they were too drunk to pull out.

  Greg Giraldo

  Dog, Kids, People

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• around 1977 I became very ... negative, I began to do things unconsciously that I didn't understand, and they were very sabotagistic and I didn't know what I was doing. I was pissing everybody off, I was breaking my bridges. I was hostile to people, I was doing performances and insulting people there - I was doing whatever I could to destroy whatever world I had created ten years before, without knowing, really, why

  Charlemagne Palestine

  Years, Bridges, Knowing

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• For example, instead of being asked to write an article, suddenly editors wanted me to make super-short videos. The assumptions of those video gigs was that kids don't read as much news and basically need to be read to, which I found really problematic and kind of insulting. I thought, Isn't it just that you don't have any money and that's why you want me to make some crappy "content" for your website?

  Astra Taylor

  Kids, Writing, Editors

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The message coming out of Washington, especially from our leftist politicians and the news media, is that we solve our budget problems by raising taxes on the rich. If Americans were more informed, such a message would be insulting to our intelligence. There are not enough rich people to satisfy Congress' appetite.

  Walter E. Williams

  Media, People, Would Be

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• Something like 'Sex And The City' was insulting - women all clawing on to their youth when there's such ripe territory in honestly exploring women's lives as they get older.

  Samantha Bond

  Sex, Cities, Territory

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• You can't reach America's youth with off the mark radio ads or insulting television commercials

  Steve Rifkind

  Television Commercials, America, Radio

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• Caricatures are an important part of our culture of debate. They should defuse political spats through humor and irony. It is about making a strong statement but softening it with a wink. So Danes do not get too upset about caricatures. None of us is interested in insulting Muslims.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Strong, Political, Upset

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.

  Samuel Johnson

  Grateful, Race, Ought

  "The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides".

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• The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and taciturnity. Nobody can beam and warble while chewing pressed beef smeared with diabolical mustard. Nobody can exult aloud while ungluing from his teeth a quivering tapioca pudding.

  Karel Capek

  Average, Cooking, Teeth

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