Offending Quotes

• Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, speak without offending.

  Drake

  Life, Humble, Positivity

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• The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

  Dave Barry

  Running, Religious, Writing

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.201, Ballantine Books

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• If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Printed Books, Printed Word, Criticism

  Benjamin Franklin (1945). “Autobiographical writings”

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• Forgiveness involves pardon. Basically, that is like erasing their offenses toward us from a marking board. We immediately wash their offenses away like a wave washing away a message in the sand. Second, forgiveness involves caring for the offending person because most people who offend us have something in their own heart that needs healing. When we forgive others, they are released from our anger and we are healed by God.

  Gary Smalley

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

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• Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Love, Philosophical, Men

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• I'm really proud ofGunsmoke. We put on a good show every week-one that families could all watch together without offending anyone.

  Ken Curtis

  Together, Watches, Proud

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• Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.

  Daniel Defoe

  Party, Eye, Men

  "Selected Writings of Daniel Defoe".

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• My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

  Horatio Nelson

  Country, Kings, Soul

  Horatio Nelson's letter to his mistress Lady Hamilton, 1800.

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• If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Integrity, Soul

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, John Payne Collier, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI, pts. 1-3”, p.189

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• Sometimes God offends our minds in order
  to reveal our hearts.

  John Wimber

  Heart, Order, Mind

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• The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it's chiseled in bronze.

  Giovannino Guareschi

  Writing, Men, Insulting

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• The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Flattery, Language, Habit

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• The fear of offending can be stronger than the fear of pain

  Dave Gorman

  Pain, Stronger

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• As a well-known great man would have said if he had thought of it, "Don't go around offending people just because it can be done sitting down."

  Gracie Allen

  Men, People, Sitting

  "How to Become President". Book by Gracie Allen, 1940.

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• I don't see myself as offending people.

  Jimmy Carr

  People

  "Jimmy Carr interview: Motormouth reflects on the crazy world of stand-up comedy". www.mirror.co.uk. November 18, 2011.

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• By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if me my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires: But if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive.

  William Shakespeare

  Soul, Honor, Gold

  William Shakespeare (1797). “Works, containing his plays and poems: to which is added a glossary”, p.543

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• I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial. Love is not blood and suffering. Love is not murdering your son to appease your own vanity. Love is not hatred or wrath, consigning billions of people to eternal torture because they have offended your ego or disobeyed your rules. Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.

  Dan Barker

  Love, God, Christian

  Dan Barker (2009). “Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists”, p.89, Ulysses Press

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• When we believe or say we have been offended, we usually mean we feel insulted, mistreated, snubbed, or disrespected. And certainly clumsy, embarrassing, unprincipled, and mean-spirited things do occur in our interactions with other people that would allow us to take offense. However, it ultimately is impossible for another person to offend you or to offend me. Indeed, believing that another person offended us is fundamentally false. To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.

  David A. Bednar

  Believe, Mean, Interaction With Others

  "And Nothing Shall Offend Them". David A. Bednar's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 2006.

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• I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.

  Linus Torvalds

  Thinking, People, Should

  "Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds [Full-length]". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. June 15, 2012.

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• It takes strong ears indeed to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship. For it is a healthy love that will risk wounding or offending in order to profer a benefit.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Strong, Honesty

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  As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Population, Angry

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• If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.

  Noam Chomsky

  Offended You, People, Ought

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• Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.

  Grover Cleveland

  People, Political, Agents

  Grover Cleveland, United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland), United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland) (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Attitude, Character

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• Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits; the other recreates and revives them.

  Samuel Johnson

  Vegetables, Spirit, Weak

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