Offensive Quotes - Page 10

• I was trying to think of a word that was not offensive. Yeah, Harry [Elfont] is right - it is kind of a different MTV for sure.

  Deborah Kaplan

  Thinking, Mtv, Trying

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• We will also make it a priority to develop defensive and offensive cyber capabilities at our U.S. Cyber Command and recruit the best and brightest Americans.

  Donald Trump

  Priorities, Cyber, Command

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The new, though engaging at times, may often start as offensive to us. The latter is often proof of the worth of this, while in the long run it will receive more recognition, than some, of what we liked so much in the beginning.

  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

  Running, Long, May

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• Calling a trans person by their former name is referred to as "deadnaming" and is considered highly offensive to most trans people I know.

  Steven Petrow

  Names, People, Calling

  "Civilities: Steven Petrow answers all your LGBT and straight social dilemmas for the hour". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2016.

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• Some of Kant's particular moral opinions, either because he shared the prejudices of his time, or because of his own personal crotchets, can strike sensible people as ridiculous or offensive. But in my view, his own theory provides us with the resources (the best resources available, I believe) to correct his own personal errors or cultural prejudices.

  Allen W. Wood

  Believe, Errors, Views

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• We call for a new kind of offensive in the Middle East because our current approach has a track record and it's not a good one.

  Jill Stein

  Track, Middle East, Records

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• When we go to school, very often, we don't see that passion because the way school is run, the disciplinary nature of it and the rote learning are so, sort of, offensive actually, that children sort of lose that passion more often than not.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Running, Children, Passion

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Comments that suggest that Muslims should be banned from the United States are offensive and unconstitutional.

  Mike Pence

  United States, Should, Banned

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• [Donald Trump] suggestions are not only offensive but, in certain cases, dangerous and sometimes even illegal, like his dismissal of the laws of the United States international law when it comes to torture.

  Hillary Clinton

  Law, Suggestions, United States

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Ironically enough, if the case involves race, and one claims that race is a disqualifying factor, nobody could hear the case. Everybody comes to these cases with some preconceptions, and the premise of our judicial system is that judges by training and by ethical codes are obligated to set those prejudices aside and to decide on the facts and the law. And to claim that somebody can't simply because of their racial identity is deeply offensive.

  Deborah Rhode

  Race, Law, Judging

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". Interview with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• If that were a winning argument, Donald Trump could get anybody off the bench on his cases by just something deeply offensive based on their background.

  Deborah Rhode

  Winning, Benches, Argument

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence.

  Giulio Douhet

  Airplane, Independence, Excellence

  General Giulio Douhet (2014). “Command Of The Air”, p.32, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that there was torture and pain in their work, but there was also dignity in the way that was dealt with. So I don't buy this contemporary notion that the only way to be artistic is to be arrogant, offensive or immoral.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Art, Pain, Past

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• Comrade [Rafael] Correa gets it right, most of the time. This is new, 'final' offensive of the Empire in Latin America.

  Andre Vltchek

  Latin, America, Finals

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When you are constantly hearing offensive words and always have some irritating matter in mind, only then do you have a whetstone for character development. If you hear only what pleases you, and deal only with what thrills you, then you are burying your life in deadly poison.

  Zicheng Hong

  Character, Mind, Taoism

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• Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive. Desperate womanhood. Madonna is closer to organized prostitution than anything else.

  Steven Morrissey

  Desperate, Absurd, Prostitution

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• The comments by the Leader of the Labour Party [Jeremy Corbyn] at the launch, however they were intended, are themselves offensive, and rather than rebuilding trust among the Jewish community, are likely to cause even greater concern.

  Ephraim Mirvis

  Party, Community, Leader

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• ... it is clear that any sexual relationship other than that between a legally wedded heterosexual husband and wife is sinful. The divine mandate of marriage between man and woman puts in perspective why homosexual acts are offensive to God. They repudiate the gift and the Giver of eternal life.

  Victor L. Brown

  Husband, Men, Wife

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• Economic and military power can be developed under the spur of laws and appropriations. But moral power does not derive from any act of Congress. It depends on the relations of a people to their God. It is the churches to which we must look to develop the resources for the great moral offensive that is required to make human rights secure, and to win a just and lasting peace.

  John Foster Dulles

  Peace, Military, Winning

  John Foster Dulles (1960). “The Spiritual Legacy of John Foster Dulles: Selections from His Articles and Addresses”, Philadelphia : Westminister Press

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• Advice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which had escaped our notice, but because it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves; and the officious monitor is persecuted with hatred, not because his accusation is false, but because he assumes that superiority which we are not willing to grant him, and has dared to detect what we desired to conceal.

  Samuel Johnson

  Regret, Hatred, Advice

  Samuel Johnson (1811). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.131

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• To watch an American on a beach, or crowding into a subway, or buying a theatre ticket, or sitting at home with his radio on, tells you something about one aspect of the American character: the capacity to withstand a great deal of outside interference, so to speak; a willing acceptance of frenzy which, though it's never self-conscious, amounts to a willingness to let other people have and assert their own lively, and even offensive, character. They are a tough race in this.

  Alistair Cooke

  Beach, Character, Home

  "Letter from America, 1946-2004".

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• Humor is so culturally based that when I try to tell a joke as me being a white American, if I tell other white Americans, they'll laugh. If I tell an African American, they might not laugh. In fact, they either might not find it funny, or they might find it offensive, and I didn't mean it to be offensive. So these are the sort of little things that build up over time, just like in a marriage. You know, the little things can build up over time.

  Michael Emerson

  Mean, White, Laughing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Ray Lewis knifed through those offensive linemen like a sucker-punch switchblade slicing between the ribs of some inebriated trash-talking punk outside a sports bar.

  Dennis Miller

  Sports, Football, Talking

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• I will then ask for a plan to immediately protect those vulnerabilities and then fix them.At the same time, we will invest heavily in offensive cyber capabilities to disrupt our enemies, including terrorists who rely heavily on internet communications.

  Donald Trump

  Communication, Enemy, Internet

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Let's take our fight to our opponents with better ideas. Let's get on the offensive and let's stay there. Let's compete in every part of America and turn out at the polls like every last vote matters because it will.

  Paul Ryan

  Fighting, America, Ideas

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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