Insult Quotes

Reclaiming the word 'fat' was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead replaced it with truth, because the truth is that I am fat, and that's ok. So now when someone calls me fat, I agree, whereas before I would get embarrassed and emotional.
Beth Ditto

Truth, Emotional, Someone

There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To impose Enlightenment freedoms is self-defeating. Anyway, the Muslims have their own enlightenment.
James Buchan

Ignorance, Cannot, Away

The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.
Rowan Atkinson

Problem, Point, Criticism

I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.
Josephine Baker

Frenchmen, Nicely

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
Edmond de Goncourt

Religion, God, Him

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.
Junius

Oppression, Easily, Endured

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.
John B. S. Haldane

Great, God, Fire

Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.
Suzanne Fields

Humor, Time, Powerful

The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.
Isabel Allende

Great, Angry, Try

I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.
Karl Rove

Said, Become, Until

Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.
Cordell Hull

After, Until, River

To call this a recovery is an insult to recoveries.
Mitch McConnell

If someone does something illegal on Twitter - like incite hatred, or make racist remarks, or threaten to rip someone's intestines out if they insult Justin Bieber - then there has to be some way of censuring them.
Tony Parsons

Someone, Hatred, Illegal

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.
Benjamin Tucker

Liberty, Pay, Force

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
Patricia Meyer Spacks

Women, Men, Morality

But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.
Ben Harper

Life, Love, Music

We Egyptians reject any kind of assault or insult against our prophet.
Mohammed Morsi

Against, Reject, Prophet

I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge.
Robert Purvis

Good, Judge, Leave

Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
Nancy Cartwright

Okay, Principal, Adding

The bad part about being recognized is that when I walk into a restaurant and sit down, I've got to eat everything on the plate, whether it's good or bad. People would take it as an insult if I did otherwise.
Paul Prudhomme

Good, Bad, Down

People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they - at least the ones that I know personally - have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them.
Winona Ryder

Movies, Waiting, Woman

People call me an instinctive actor. I used to consider that an insult early on, only because I had never studied. Now... I love it.
Danny Aiello

Love, Used, Actor

In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence, an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how can one dismiss something that persists despite every reasonable theory that it shouldn't?
Sebastian Junger

Life, Act, Ways

Most people, when they think of an insult, they keep it to themselves. But you wouldn't believe the things people say on my Twitter feed, and I'm a nice guy. Imagine if I was a jerk.
Jeff Ross

Nice, Keep, Themselves

We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
Ferdinand Mount

History, Human, Doubt

You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.
Cam Gigandet

Artists, Arts, Actual

If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists.
Sydney Schanberg

Good, Journalism

The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights.
Hideki Tojo

Rights, China, Japan

If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.
Tanith Lee

Good, Writing, Enough

In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get. Is that because women are considered something less?
Andrej Pejic

Women, Society, Woman

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