Quotes about Offend

Offend her, and she knows not to forgive; Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live. Votes: 3

Offend a Christian and he is obliged to pray for your salvation. Offend a Muslim and he is obliged to murder you. Votes: 3

I can't get upset about 'offensive to women' or 'offensive to blacks' or 'offensive to Native Americans' or 'offensive to Jews' ... Offend! I can't get worked up about it. Offend! Votes: 3

Offend in neither word nor deed. Eat with moderation. Live in your heart. Seek the highest consciousness. Master yourself according to the law. This is the simple teaching of the awakened. Votes: 3

I think anyone who has an opinion, and voices it, will offend someone. Votes: 2

You can only offend me if you mean something to me. Votes: 1

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people. Votes: 1

If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment. Votes: 1

I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended. Votes: 1

I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it. Votes: 1

Let's face it: It's difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom. Votes: 1

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. Votes: 1

It's impossible to go through life not offending people. All you have to do is basically have an opinion on anything, and you're gonna offend people. Votes: 1

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred. Votes: 1

Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not funny. It's gotta offend somebody somewhere. Votes: 1

Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home. Votes: 1

When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been in really ghastly taste. I don't think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them. Votes: 1

With anything you put out there, you're going to offend somebody, but most people get that it's a joke, that I'm playing a character, and that I'm actually making fun of what I'm saying by saying it. Votes: 1

I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people. Votes: 1

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. Votes: 1

Political correctness is as exploitable as any other progressive ideal, but its aim is to stifle the incessant noise of those who flap their careless lips without a thought about those they might offend and why that might be important. Votes: 1

That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively. Votes: 1

My family was all born in Sicily and I'm Italian-American. They're the real thing. They're authentic Italians, and honestly they're the most open-minded, nicest people in the world and nothing can really offend them. That's the way I think true Sicilians are. Votes: 1

I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others. Votes: 1

The biggest terrorist is the God of the Quran. I know this is very dangerous and this will offend many people. The more you follow the steps of the prophet of Islam and the God of Islam, the more you get close to being a terrorist. Votes: 1

I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us. Votes: 1

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared. Votes: 1

The problem with State of the Union speeches is that they are, by their nature and design, alphabet soup. It's hard to know what a president really cares about when they run down a laundry list and check every issue box under the sun for fear they will offend some constituency if they don't. Votes: 1

Imagine for a moment the result if everyone were to love one another as Jesus loves his disciples. We would have no bickering, quarreling, strife, or contention in our homes. We would not offend or insult one another either verbally or in any other way. We would not have unnecessary litigation over small matters. Votes: 1

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. Votes: 1

Sacred texts always offend reason. Votes: 0

I don't aim to offend. Votes: 0

Alliteration seems to offend people. Votes: 0

All go free when multitudes offend. Votes: 0

Art has an obligation to offend Votes: 0

I hope to offend every reader. Votes: 0

I don't want to offend people. Votes: 0

The best defense is not to offend. Votes: 0

Only lies offend me, never honest counsel. Votes: 0

I'd rather entertain people than offend them. Votes: 0

Never offend an enemy in a small way. Votes: 0

He who dares not offend cannot be honest. Votes: 0

It is difficult to offend a New Yorker. Votes: 0

Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people. Votes: 0

I really do mean to offend you, you know. Votes: 0

Art should offend people because art should challenge people. Votes: 0

Does freedom of speech give the right to offend? Votes: 0

He couldn't offend the gods with a pointed stick. Votes: 0

Thou shalt not offend against the notions of thy neighbor. Votes: 0

If I don't offend somebody, then I'm probably not funny. Votes: 0

Who fears t' offend takes the first step to please. Votes: 0

We offend God because we do not know His greatness. Votes: 0

If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum. Votes: 0

To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated. Votes: 0

My God! This is a revolution! We have to offend someone! Votes: 0

Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does rather offend than please. Votes: 0

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. Votes: 0

Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little. Votes: 0

Let what offends God offend me, and what God pardons, I pardon. Votes: 0

We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody. Votes: 0

And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend. Votes: 0

We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified. Votes: 0

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. Votes: 0

This is a revolution, damn it! We're going to have to offend somebody! Votes: 0

God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend. Votes: 0

We must not mind insulting men, if by respecting them we offend God. Votes: 0

The last thing I want to do...is offend people and ostracize myself. Votes: 0

This here song might offend some, if it does it's because your dumb. Votes: 0

Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend? Votes: 0

Freedom of speech encompasses precisely the freedom to annoy, to ridicule, and to offend. Votes: 0

Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive. Votes: 0

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Votes: 0

To speak and to offend is with some people but one and the same thing. Votes: 0

An honest heart seeks to please God in all things and offend Him in none. Votes: 0

I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone. Votes: 0

In all your movements, let nothing be evident that would offend the eyes of another. Votes: 0

We should never intentionally offend, but if you follow Jesus, you will offend religious people. Votes: 0

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended. Votes: 0

Coming from The Disney Channel, anything I do is going to offend somehow, somewhere, somehow. Votes: 0

No man more truly loves God than he that is most fearful to offend Him. Votes: 0

The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love. Votes: 0

You will either offend the world and please God, or please the world and offend God. Votes: 0

If you can listen to or read anything, but misspelled words offend you, raise your hadn. Votes: 0

Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended. Votes: 0

Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin. Votes: 0

Truth is a constant delight to those that love her; such beauty holds no power to offend. Votes: 0

It's very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone. Votes: 0

Nearly everyone I knew talked to me about God. They always warned me not to offend Him. Votes: 0

Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense. Votes: 0

No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't. Votes: 0

People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people. Votes: 0

People invade your space and offend your sensibilities because, to be plain, they couldn't care less about you. Votes: 0

Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend. Votes: 0

It's OK to offend people with the Gospel, but, good grief- let's don't offend them with something else. Votes: 0

Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend. Votes: 0

I come from a long ago era where men could be men and stereotypical humor didn't offend anybody. Votes: 0

Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws. Votes: 0

What you discover about people you try not to offend is that you can offend them without trying. Votes: 0

I say, when you tell the truth, you never offend nobody, particularly if you do it with dignity. Votes: 0

Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I'm simply worried. Votes: 0

There's nothing more stubborn than a fact. That is why you hate them so much. They offend you. Votes: 0

It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families. Votes: 0

Everything is a sin. It all depends on which person you happen to offend with your free will. Votes: 0

Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs. Votes: 0

People are made in such a way that even the holiest ones are liable to offend one another. Votes: 0

To win this war, we have been forced into a strategic compromise which will most certainly offend the Russians. Votes: 0

Men are more ready to offend one who desires to be beloved than one who wishes to be feared. Votes: 0

Whoever turns away from us might not offend us in doing so perhaps, but he certainly offends our followers. Votes: 0

Music, in even the most terrible situations, must never offend the ear but always remain a source of pleasure. Votes: 0

He who is humble easily obeys everyone, fears to offend anyone, is at peace with everyone, is kind with all. Votes: 0

Do not offend devotees or even non-devotees. Because all those whom we know as devotees today were once not devotees. Votes: 0

One cannot offend, make war, kill in the name of one's own religion, that is, in the name of God. Votes: 0

I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here. Votes: 0

If you are too afraid to offend anyone, then I'm afraid you may not be able to do anything remarkable Votes: 0

I'm not going to be a rebel and offend anybody, but I'm not going to live in somebody else's image. Votes: 0

It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls. Votes: 0

Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe, a serpent tooth bites not so ill, as dooth a schollers angrie quill. Votes: 0

In prosperity, give thanks to God with humility and fear lest by pride you abuse God's benefits and so offend him. Votes: 0

Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend. Votes: 0

Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music. Votes: 0

People have every right to be offended -- but that doesn't mean they get to take away your right to offend. Votes: 0

We should do by our cunning as we do by our courage--always have it ready to defend ourselves, never to offend others. Votes: 0

It was fun to create characters who had truth to them but were also made up so as not to completely offend! Votes: 0

Which of us, then, does not offend frequently with our tongue? The real problem, however, is not our tongues but our hearts. Votes: 0

We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them. Votes: 0

Love is the fart Of every heart It pains the man when 'tis kept close, And others doth offend, when 'tis let loose. Votes: 0

I know I probably offend some people. I have been talking a little too much so I'm trying not to talk as much. Votes: 0

The sage is sharp but does not cut, pointed but does not pierce, forthright but does not offend, bright but does not dazzle. Votes: 0

I'd seriously contemplated a real collar - a sparkly green one - if only because I was sure it would offend his dignity. Votes: 0

I've never really been one to try to be politically correct. I just feel truth is truth, and sometimes I probably offend some people. Votes: 0

I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings. Votes: 0

Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did. Votes: 0

It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market. Votes: 0

There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you. Votes: 0

If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind. Votes: 0

Those who offend us are generally punished for the offence they give; but we so frequently miss the satisfaction of knowing that we are avenged !. Votes: 0

I think people should have the common courtesy and judgment - the good judgment - not to be - not to offend other peoples' faiths. Votes: 0

It seems no matter what you say and how politically correctly and carefully you say it, you offend someone. Or at least I always do. Votes: 0

Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information. Votes: 0

I have thick skin. I'm not a baby. Nothing really offends me. If there's something I think might offend me, I don't listen to it. Votes: 0

John Kerry didn't out me, nor did he offend or attack me by calling me a lesbian. I certainly couldn't be offended by the truth. Votes: 0

It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred. Votes: 0

Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved. Votes: 0

Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done. Votes: 0

Well, I`ve never really been one to try to be politically correct. I just feel truth is truth, and sometimes I probably offend some people. Votes: 0

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness. Votes: 0

I think the biggest insult, the worst way you can offend a Mexican, is to insult their mother. A mother is the most sacred thing in life. Votes: 0

The idea that the reader is important enough to me that I'd tailor my words to either please or offend them always seems amusingly alien to me. Votes: 0

Yeah, Mom, I’ll just keep telling the prince that he has absolutely no shot with me and offend him as often as I can. Great plan. Votes: 0

I am an atheist... I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's all nonsense. Votes: 0

I wanted to push the envelope, and I wanted to go so far as to actually offend both the liberals and the right. I think I have succeeded. Votes: 0

I got hit on at the bar last night, and this morning I have a black eye. Sometimes you can be so sexy that you offend, I guess. Votes: 0

Captain Niall, having apparently resigned himself to losing his quarry, was savaging her horsehair petticoat into teeny, tiny shreds. "Really, what did my poor petticoat do to offend? Votes: 0

The don't-ask-don't-tell approach to plot and character that 'The Hurt Locker' relies on to set itself in motion doesn't offend me politically. It offends me as a storyteller. Votes: 0

There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their perfections which please him. Votes: 0

Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind. Votes: 0

The movie industry would never purposely offend homosexuals, native Americans, environmentalists, animal rights activists, or women's groups, but they don't think twice about something that might offend Christians. Votes: 0

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste. Votes: 0

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness." -Edward Ferrars Votes: 0

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste. Votes: 0

If I wouldn't offend my religion or God, why would I want to offend an audience because in effect those people are being watched over by the same person. Votes: 0

Follow the path of serenity. Why lose your temper if by losing it you offend God, trouble your neighbor and in the end have to set things aright anyway? Votes: 0

Please, Achimou? (Tory) You are the only being who's ever called me that. (Acheron) Well, I'd call you babycakes, but I think that might offend you even more. (Tory) Votes: 0

It's not my intention to shock, to offend, sensationalise, be political or whatever; only to make work that is as spiritually meaningful as I can make it-whatever the medium. Votes: 0

I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand. Votes: 0

I'm fully aware that some of the stuff I write is going to offend people or p*ss them off. They should be fully aware that I don't really care. Votes: 0

If a person begins by telling you, 'Do not be offended at what I am going to say,' prepare yourself for something that she knows will certainly offend you. Votes: 0

I don't see me doing $100 million films because $100 million films, the very nature of them, you need to offend as few people as possible just to make your money back. Votes: 0

We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them. Votes: 0

I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by doing it wrong.' I can't bear that! Votes: 0

That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board. Votes: 0

This hill though high I covent ascend; The difficulty will not me offend; For I perceive the way of life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear. Votes: 0

When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you. Votes: 0

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest. Votes: 0

No one understands that the First Amendment is only important if you are going to offend somebody. If you're not going to offend somebody, you don't need protection of the First Amendment. Votes: 0

Christians are the only group Hollywood can offend with impunity, the only creed it actually goes out of its way to insult... The tenets of Christianity are regularly held up to ridicule. Votes: 0

I left this conversation hours ago, but somehow my mouth is still moving, words are still forming, and none have seemed to offend. Amazing, the mind. My mind, I mean. Not hers. Votes: 0

In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his own achievement more than of his subject always offend me. Votes: 0

I don't want to offend people and I don't want to be mean, but social commentary and comedy for me are part and parcel. I think the greatest social activists are comedians. Votes: 0

Have you guys ever ghost hunted in Hawaii? No? Well, I have this fat friend... I shouldn't say fat, that might offend him, but he's Samoan and claims to have seen ghosts. Votes: 0

REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of words, the tactics of the North American Indian. Votes: 0

Thou knowest not the endless artifices of a court. Invented crimes are often there alleged; but real ones, and those especially, which may offend his pride, are oftentimes not to a king divulged. Votes: 0

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them. Votes: 0

I believe it is no secret that I like Japan very much - Japanese culture, sport, including judo, but it will not offend anyone if I say that I like Russia even more. Votes: 0

What are you doing here? (Jericho) Do my accommodations offend you? I've grown quite used to them. Though a view of something other than mangled bodies might be nice for a change. (Jaden) Votes: 0

Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend. Votes: 0

We ought to deploy a missile defense shield to the Czech Republic and Poland, which Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama pulled back on out of not wanting to offend the Russians back in 2009. Votes: 0

I really fancy Harrison Ford. I've got to say I think he's really divine. He's, like, an older man, I guess, although he's not really that old, obviously. I don't want to offend him. Votes: 0

Good teachers are not known for telling you what you want to hear, and consequently they're rarely popular because they tend to offend people on a regular basis by their mere presence on earth. Votes: 0

I really fancy Harrison Ford. I've got to say I think he's really divine. He's, like, an older man, I guess, although he's not really that old, obviously. I don't want to offend him Votes: 0

If, one day, I should offend God in any way, or grow remiss, though ever so little, in that which concerns His holy service and glory, I solemnly implore Him, rather let me die. Votes: 0

A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world. Votes: 0

It's OK to burn a Bible, that's OK. OK to burn a flag, OK, that's all right. But just, you know, for heaven's sake, don't say anything that might offend someone of the Islamic religion. Votes: 0

I want to be remembered as a person who kept it real, who did what he wanted to do, but never did nothing stupid and never tried to offend nobody else. I'm always being myself. Votes: 0

I don't believe I can offend you in a comedy club. I don't believe I can offend you in a concert. A comedy club is a place where you work out material; you're trying material. Votes: 0

Ok, here goes: I'm going to see how many people I can offend by suggesting that maybe many little gay boys, like many little girls, are made up of sugar and spice and everything nice. Votes: 0

Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now, when the world is at war with terrorism and the United States cannot afford to offend the sensibility of our Turkish ally. Votes: 0

What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice. Votes: 0