Offensive Quotes

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

Arrogance, Merit

I didn't just invent saying offensive things.
Eminem

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
George Washington

Power, War, After

What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith - something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.
Barack Obama

Faith, Time, Long

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

Work, Wish, Sense

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

Difficulty, Fascinated, Merely

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Someone, Nothing, Grief

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Success, Crimes

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Patience, Vanity

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

Good, Women, Bad

Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.
Chuck Palahniuk

Time, Write, Surprise

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

War, Basketball, While

I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.
Tony Hawk

Art, Action, Lifestyle

I never find sincerity offensive... so, be sincere.
Christopher Meloni

Find, Sincerity, Sincere

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

God, Mind, Hand

I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.
Dean Koontz

Society, Find, Violence

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
Robert Burns

Mind, Struggle, Ready

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.
Hugh Blair

Whatever, Gentleness, Manner

You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.
Tom Lehrer

Somebody, Satirical

Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?
Christopher Walken

Funny, Why, Away

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
Alfred North Whitehead

Life, Universe, Against

I am not a particularly political person, but, as a Tribeca resident, the commodification of September 11th is offensive to me.
Lena Dunham

Political, Person, September

I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.
Carlos Ghosn

Person, Mean, Optimistic

I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
Iggy Pop

Music, Sound, Wild

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

Our music has always been instant reactive and I guess taking our time to absorb things and say what you really want to say could be much more offensive than anything we've ever done.
Fred Durst

Music, Time, Done

So we're considering doing a new Christmas album, because there's been Christmas episodes since then, and maybe finally do the version of 'The Most Offensive Song Ever' with lyrics intact.
Trey Parker

Christmas, Song, Since

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?
Jessamyn West

Love, Honest, False

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, Others, Lead

I don't find the whole 'cougar' word that offensive.
Courteney Cox

Find, Whole, Word

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