Insulting Quotes - Page 6

• Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.

  Harold Wilson

  Sarcastic, Dog, Fun

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• Since when do we let the government decide what is or isn't good for us? What the hell does Congress know about nutrition, anyway?... If the government can use force whenever something is "in our best interest" then government should force everyone to wake up at 6am every morning for calisthenics in the front yard. Fast food establishments should be torn down and replaced with bars that serve carrot juice and alfalfa sprouts, since - "it's in your best interest." This paternalistic attitude that "the government knows best" and that you are merely a helpless child is insulting and reprehensible.

  Michael Badnarik

  Morning, Children, Attitude

  "Good to Be King". Book by Michael Badnarik, 2004.

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• I'm trying to make records where people don't feel cheated. Nashville has been guilty of insulting the Country Music audience for years and years.

  Steve Earle

  Country, Nashville, Years

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• I have always had my doubts about any form of divine intervention in sports contests. The power of prayer may be remarkable in many other arenas, but why should God want my team to win instead of the other side? Isn't it insulting to request God to even take an interest in baseball?

  Roger Ebert

  Sports, Baseball, Prayer

  Roger Ebert (1995). “Roger Ebert's video companion: 1996 edition”

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• Jesse Jackson also said he thought Barack Obama was talking down to black people by lecturing them on things like fatherhood and being a responsible husband. Jesse thought it was insulting, not only to him, but to his former mistress and their love child.

  Jay Leno

  Children, Husband, Talking

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• All that 'poor hometown girl who marries into Hollywood royalty'. It's actually quite insulting to my parents.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Girl, Parent, Hollywood

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• It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Book, Believe, Should Have

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• The notion that only those who preach the gospel of integrated medicine are able to perform the art of medicine is as ridiculous as it is insulting to everyone in healthcare who does his/her best to meet the needs of their patients. The assumption that unproven or disproven treatments become acceptable simply because they are often administered in a kind and caring fashion is quite simply not true.

  Edzard Ernst

  Fashion, Art, Pain

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• In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected middle-class home, with labour ended, the table spread, goodness all around, the lost ones restored, hymnody incessant.

  Matthew Arnold

  Home, Lost Ones, Class

  Matthew Arnold (1874). “Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible”, p.378

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• This coarse and insulting way of regarding woman, as though they existed merely to be the safety-valves of men's passions, and that the best men were above the temptation of loving them, has been the source of unnumbered evils.

  Annie Besant

  Passion, Men, Safety

  Annie Besant (2012). “Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History”, p.200, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Atheists are often charged with blasphemy, but it is a crime they cannot commit... When the Atheist examines, denounces, or satirises the gods, he is not dealing with persons but with ideas. He is incapable of insulting God, for he does not admit the existence of any such being... We attack not a person but a belief, not a binge but an idea, not a fact but a fancy.

  George William Foote

  Atheist, Ideas, Atheism

  "Who Are the Blasphemers? (June 1882)". "Flowers of Freethought". Book by George William Foote, p. 112, www.ftarchives.net. 1893.

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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, Want, Instinct

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• I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words toward anyone, for neither diminishes the strength of the enemy.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Enemy, Proof

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• Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.

  Alphonse Karr

  Education, Art, Latin

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• We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

  Robert Scheer

  Media, People, Garbage

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• In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Men, Rights

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1583, Delphi Classics

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• The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, England, Interest

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Miscellanies”, p.135, Oscar Wilde

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• Wanderers, Dublin's oldest rugby club, has been described more than once as the club of the Church and the Army: the wags added
  "...unfortunately the wrong Church and the wrong Army."

  Gemma Hussey

  Army, Church, Dublin

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• Never Throw Stones At Your Mother

  David Ross

  Mother, Stones, Rugby

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• To be called an elder statesman is so unbelievably insulting.
  Brad Pitt is exactly three years younger than me.

  Michael Stipe

  Years, Three, Brad

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• If you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with without denigrating them or insulting them, then you may actually be heard.

  Amy Poehler

  Care, May, Speak

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• Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Eye, Expression

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• ... I never look at my watch if I'm talking with someone. I think that's such an insulting gesture! It suggests you're trying to gauge whether you think what they're saying is worth your time. Rushing is no way to bring out what's best in people, and I'm always looking for the best. That's what's ultimately behind my determination to take my time.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Determination, Thinking, Talking

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• Heroism is no extempore work of transient impulse--a rocket rushing fretfully up to disturb the darkness by which, after a moment's insulting radiance, it is ruthlessly swallowed up,--but a steady fire, which darts forth tongues of flame. It is no sparkling epigram of action, but a luminous epic of character.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Character, Epic, Rushing

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• This is the inevitable consequence of a popular movie: you become the guy who wrote "the book that inspired the movie." Frankly speaking, I find it a bit insulting.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Book, Guy, Popular Movie

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