A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
Bertrand Russell

An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.
Aiden Wilson Tozer

An offensive war, I believe to be wrong and would therefore have nothing to do with it, having no right to meddle with another man's property, his ox or his ass, his man servant or his maid servant or anything this is his.
Daniel Morgan

Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me.
Trent Reznor

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
Red Auerbach

Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language.
Timothy West

Even if you didn't see the movie, you'd see two words you'd never seen put together before - comedy and Muslim. Comedy is friendly - it's the least offensive word in our language.
Albert Brooks

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.
Giraldus Cambrensis

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.
Hugh Blair

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
Anita Brookner

Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.
Katharine Whitehorn

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
Nora Ephron

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

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

I don't see on television the kind of blood and guts and body parts blown apart that maybe you're referring to, but it certainly is in that BATMAN feature and I found it very offensive.
Burt Ward

I don't talk much to offensive linemen in general.
Jack Youngblood

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

I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.
Michael Badnarik

I hate the industry even more now, no bands get nurtured anymore. Labels only spend money promoting acts they know will be Top Ten. I find it offensive spending $2 million on a video.
Siouxsie Sioux