Offensive Quotes - Page 3

• Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist... faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an offensive state.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Reality, Faithful

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• I'd like to apologize in advance for anything I may say or do that could be construed as offensive as I slowly go nuts!

  Jack O'Neill

  Nuts, May, Apologizing

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• Chélan had acted as imprudently for Julien as he had for himself. He had given him the habit of reasoning correctly, and of not being put off by empty words, but he had neglected to tell him that this habit was a crime in the person of no importance, since every piece of logical reasoning is offensive.

  Stendhal

  Logical Reasoning, Pieces, Empty

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.191, Xist Publishing

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• A weak man is not as happy as that same man would be if he were strong. This reality is offensive to some people who would like the intellectual or spiritual to take precedence. It is instructive to see what happens to these very people as their squat strength goes up.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Spiritual, Strong, Reality

  "Starting Strength". Book by Mark Rippetoe, www.newyorker.com. 2005.

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• I am not haunted by memories of Vietnam. But I must admit I never thought we would again witness in my lifetime the specter of politicians picking targets and ruling out offensive measures in the absurd hope that the enemy would respond to our restraint by yielding to our demands.

  John McCain

  Memories, Enemy, Target

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• You [President Kennedy] have made some pretty strong statements about their being defensive and that we would take action against offensive weapons. I think that a blockade and political talk would be considered by a lot of our friends and neutrals as being a pretty weak response to this [the Cuban missile crisis]. And I'm sure a lot of our own citizens would feel that way too. In other words, you're in a pretty bad fix at the present time.

  Curtis LeMay

  Strong, War, Thinking

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• This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet Military buildup on the island of Cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. The purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear strike capability against the Western Hemisphere.

  John F. Kennedy

  Military, War, Past

  Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation, delivered 22 October 1962

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• For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.

  Yuliya Snigir

  Men, Who I Am, Looks

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• That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up, and so should relatives who are without affection.

  Chanakya

  Spiritual, Men, Wife

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• God does not hear the prayers of a Jew.

  Jerry Falwell

  Prayer, Sick, Doe

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• The disconnect between [offensive coordinator] Todd Haley and [quarterback] Ben Roethlisberger is so blatant you can just see it.

  Marshall Faulk

  Haley, Quarterback, Ben Roethlisberger

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• Islamic ethics is based on 'limits and proportions,' which means that the answer to an offensive cartoon is a cartoon, not the burning of embassies or the kidnapping of people designated as the enemy. Islam rejects guilt by association. Just as Muslims should not blame all Westerners for the poor taste of a cartoonist who wanted to be offensive, those horrified by the spectacle of rent-a-mob sackings of embassies in the name of Islam should not blame all Muslims for what is an outburst of fascist energy.

  Amir Taheri

  Islamic, Mean, Names

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• That doesn't mean that the top fifteen institutions in the ranking somehow don't belong there at all. But what is the difference between number two and number eight in any meaningful sense? As an administrator who worked to build a complex university, I find the assumption slightly offensive. We need to be committed to excellence, not to lists.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Meaningful, Eight, Two

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Story is morally neutral. It can express profound truth or propaganda. The two greatest political storytellers of the 20th Century were Winston Churchill and Adolph Hitler. Because storytelling is a form of persuasive jujitsu, and because world is full of black belt storytellers, the corporate leader has to train both his offensive and defensive moves

  Robert McKee

  Moving, Two, Profound

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• Sometimes my humor does offend people, and I've said it before: I don't write jokes to be offensive. I write jokes to be funny, and I guess what I find funny are things that other people sometimes find offensive. I would love nothing more than to never offend anyone, but it just doesn't seem to work out that way.

  Moshe Kasher

  Writing, Work Out, People

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Of the seven billion people who reside on planet Earth, only 25% could, in the broadest sense of the word, be classified as "Christian" (and the percentage who have personally trusted in Christ for salvation is much smaller), meaning that over five billion people in the world are destined to hell if indeed Christ offers the exclusive path for salvation. To many people, such a claim is offensive.

  Robert Jeffress

  Christian, People, World

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• It is not that people are evil or greedy. The conditions that socially support the system force us to behave in socially offensive ways.

  Jacque Fresco

  People, Evil, Support

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• Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.

  Leon Trotsky

  Squares, Red, Consciousness

  Leon Trotsky (2012). “My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography”, p.514, Courier Corporation

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• I wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change of political climate or a willingness to abide by past accords. But unfortunately it is more likely that the Egyptians or Syrians concluded that the next time their tanks headed to Tel Aviv, there was nothing stopping the counterassaults from ending up in downtown Cairo or Damascus.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Past, Years, Political

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• We have got to accept Big Government for the duration-for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged, given our present government skills, except through the instrument of a totalitarian bureaucracy within our shores. … And if they deem Soviet power a menace to our freedom (as I happen to), they will have to support large armies and air forces, atomic energy, central intelligence, war production boards, and the attendant centralization of power in Washington-even with Truman at the reins of it all.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  War, Army, Government

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• Restricted immigration is not an offensive but purely a defensive action. It is not adopted in criticism of others in the slightest degree, but solely for the purpose of protecting ourselves. We cast no aspersions on any race or creed, but we must remember that every object of our institutions of society and government will fail unless America be kept American.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Race, Government, America

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• I am very annoyed about this issue. Why can’t it be a choice? Why is that any less legitimate? It seems we’re just ceding this point to bigots who are demanding it, and I don’t think that they should define the terms of the debate. I also feel like people think I was walking around in a cloud and didn’t realize I was gay, which I find really offensive. I find it offensive to me, but I also find it offensive to all the men I’ve been out with.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Gay, Men, Thinking

  "Life After ‘Sex’". www.nytimes.com. January 19, 2012.

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• The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception.

  Manfred von Richthofen

  War, Air, Spirit

  Manfred Von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.107, Pen and Sword

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• I developed a term that is used in the game right now called sacking a quarterback. Sacking a quarterback is just like you devastate a city or you cream a multitude of people. I mean it’s just like you put all the offensive players in one bag and I just take a baseball bat and beat on the bag.

  Deacon Jones

  Baseball, Mean, Player

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• I'm not one to blow smoke at my players. They kicked our butts on the offensive boards. And it's not just because the ball came their way.

  Gregg Popovich

  Player, Blow, Way

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