Offensive Quotes - Page 24

• Are we going to say sorry for our lack of customer service? Absolutely not.

  Michael O'Leary

  Sorry, Saying Sorry, Customers

  "Ryanair shows how much it cares" by Julia Day, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2002.

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• The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Talking, Religion

  "Letter to a Christian Nation". Book by Sam Harris, reason.com. January 8, 2008.

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• Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement.

  Jacque Fresco

  Would Be, Today, Behavior

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• This, for many people, is what's most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing

  Michael Pollan

  Hunting, People, Animal Rights

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.182, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I was much more afraid in Montgomery when I had a gun in my house. When I decided that I couldn’t keep a gun, I came face-to-face with the question of death and I dealt with it. From that point on, I no longer needed a gun nor have I been afraid. Had we become distracted by the question of my safety we would have lost the moral offensive and sunk to the level of our oppressors.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Gun, Safety, House

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• Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that.

  Will Oldham

  Song, Writing, Interaction With Others

  Will Oldham (2012). “Will Oldham on Bonnie "Prince" Billy”, p.5, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Sometimes offensive players get turned into defensive players, which sometimes isn't a bad thing, but for me I need a chance to play more offense.

  Martin St. Louis

  Player, Needs, Chance

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• During the days of my youth, critics and art-lovers resorted freely to this term of abuse. Even some of the most renowned Old Masters were also pilloried as having manufactured insipid and sugary paintings that were offensive to good taste.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Art, Abuse, Taste

  Ernst Hans Gombrich (2002). “The preference for the primitive: episodes in the history of Western taste and art”, Phaidon Press

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• No human should be coerced by the state to bear the medical expense, or any other expense, for his fellow man. In other words, the forcible use of one person to serve the purposes of another is morally offensive.

  Walter E. Williams

  Men, Purpose, Use

  Walter E. Williams (2013). “Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays”, p.100, Hoover Press

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• From the start, I've always admired Eminem's thinking. That's the reason I wanted to appear on the Grammys with him when I was asked. Eminem has the balls to say what he feels and to make offensive things funny. That's very necessary today in America, with people being muzzled and irony becoming a lost art. Artists like Eminem who use their free speech to get a point across are vitally important. There just aren't many people in the world with balls that big and talent that awesome.

  Elton John

  Art, Thinking, America

  "Eminem's Homophobic 'Rap God' Lyrics Spark Media Frenzy". www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 18, 2013.

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• Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits of the stars and even their sizes and distances... and this knowledge he holds with certainty from reason and experience. It is thus offensive and disgraceful for an unbeliever to hear a Christian talk nonsense about such things, claiming that what he is saying is based in Scripture. We should do all that we can to avoid such an embarrassing situation, which people see as ignorance in the Christian and laugh to scorn.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Stars, Distance

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• Whether Iranians are drinking wine in the evening or painting something "offensive," they choose not to dwell on the fact that they could receive some seventh-century punishment. Laws are inconsistently enforced, and you can usually pay off police to look the other way.

  Azadeh Moaveni

  Drinking, Wine, Police

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• I am extremely proud of my service with the government and my efforts to help safeguard public health and protect our country against the scourge of offensive biological warfare.

  Steven Hatfill

  Country, Government, Effort

  "Scientist under scrutiny denies anthrax link". www.cnn.com. August 11, 2002.

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• I don't find offensive that I'm being labelled a babe by blokes. I'm absolutely flattered.

  Kirsty Gallacher

  Babe, Blokes, Flattered

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• I don't want to hurt anybody or be offensive. But I don't want to not be me.

  Melanie Chisholm

  Hurt, Want

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• If we would have had the 262 at our disposal - even with all the delays - if we could have had in '44, ah, let's say three hundred operational, that day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that's for sure.

  Adolf Galland

  Three, Delay, Hundred

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• The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.

  Jacques Delors

  Europe, Driving, Reactions

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• Why wouldn't an enhanced deterrent, a more stable peace, a better prospect to denying the ones who enter conflict in the first place to have a reduction of offensive systems and an introduction to defensive capability. I believe that is the route this country will eventually go.

  Dan Quayle

  Country, Believe, Politics

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• Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.

  Ralph Peters

  Would Be, Each Day

  "When Rights Make Wrongs" by Ralph Peters, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 18, 2010.

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• It's very certain that North Korea is developing nuclear weapons for offensive purposes. They don't need nuclear weapons to defend their own country.

  Kim Young-sam

  Country, Korea, Needs

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• The one effective method of defending one's own territory from an offensive by air is to destroy the enemy's air power with the greatest possible speed.

  Giulio Douhet

  Air, Enemy, Territory

  General Giulio Douhet (2014). “Command Of The Air”, p.165, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I don't lead a particularly Bohemian existence. The main criterion for me is not to be judgemental of other people so long as what they do is not harmful or offensive to others.

  Nick Clegg

  Long, People, Judgemental

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

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• As an American, and especially as a Christian, I am convinced that a love for our own people is not a bad thing, but love doesn't stop at borders. Love is infinitely boundless and all about holy trespassing and offensive friendships.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Love Is, People

  "This July 4th, Let's Celebrate Inter dependence Day!" by Shane Claiborne, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2010.

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• If you can take pride in what you're doing on defense, it's going to be pretty hard for that offensive opponent to go by you or make a shot over you.

  Jason Terry

  Pride, Over You, Defense

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• The notion of American exceptionalism is effective in part because there is little on the face of it that is offensive.

  Russ Feingold

  Littles, Faces, American Exceptionalism

  "Russ Feingold: ‘It’s A Threat To Our Country’ To Elect One Of The GOP Presidential Candidates" by Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2012.

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