Offensive Quotes

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

Three, Defensive, Divide

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

Body, Blood, Found

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

Health, Government, Help

This country was founded on a core set of family values. These values should not be discouraged and blatantly undermined by the airing of offensive material on broadcast television and radio.
Kenny Marchant

Family, Country, Values

We need to begin an all-out diplomatic offensive on Darfur in order to prepare the way for a peacekeeping force that can ensure protection for the people of Darfur.
Kendrick Meek

Order, Force, Begin

If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.
Christian Marclay

Good, Someone, Material

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

Bad, Language, Deemed

As a viewer of television if there's something I don't like or find offensive, I just don't watch it.
Dave Navarro

Find, Television, Watch

In addition to a timeline, I have proposed that U.S. troops be removed from front line combat positions in Iraqi cities and towns, turning over daily security patrols, interactions with citizens, and any offensive security actions to the Iraqis themselves.
Peter DeFazio

Daily, Themselves, Security

Nevertheless, I tend to get offensive easily.
Robert Loggia

In some respects, inside information is a form of financial steroid. It is unfair: it is offensive; it is unlawful; and it puts a black mark on the entire enterprise.
Preet Bharara

Black, Unfair, Financial

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.
Anatole Broyard

Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
Malcolm Boyd

Nature, Society, Wish

That's what we really mean by being feared on the football field. And not actually the player that fears him, it's the offensive coordinator that fears him or the running backs coach.
Jamal Lewis

Football, Mean, Him

My submission to you is we're fighting the war on terror not overseas but in our own streets, and we'd be spending vast more fortunes to try to be a defensive country to protect ourselves rather than an offensive country to spread democracy wherever people yearn for it.
Johnny Isakson

War, Democracy, Country

If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.
Gerald Brenan

Love, Cannot, Wish

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

Money, Hate, Find

Towards four o'clock, the rebels felt strong enough to take the offensive. A brigade with a battery under Earle managed to strike the Federal right on the flank and rear and throw it into utter confusion, which spread rapidly along the whole front. Now came the disastrous end.
Henry Villard

Strong, End, Enough

Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
Ralph Peters

Legal, Around, Chooses

Currently under FCC policy, indecency determinations hinge on two factors. First, material must describe or depict sexual or excretory organs or activities. Second, the material must be patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium.
Doug Ose

Two, Second, Community

It's very certain that North Korea is developing nuclear weapons for offensive purposes. They don't need nuclear weapons to defend their own country.
Kim Y. Sam

Country, Nuclear, Weapons

There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.
Peter Pace

Leadership, Battle, Between

My family and I took visits to each and every school and listened to each coaching staff. I felt the most comfortable with and really excited about playing at SC. Being close to home in one of the best offensive systems is paying off now as I'm making the jump to the pros.
Mark Sanchez

Family, Best, Home

We played a gig and we had a song that was offensive to people of the Jewish persuasion, and we led off with it, and they were offended by it, and that was that.
Santiago Durango

Off, Song, Played

We are so appreciative of the men and women in uniform who are protecting us, whether in Afghanistan or Iraq or on ships around the world. For our security, they are taking the offensive to the terrorists overseas.
George Allen

Women, Men, Around

Whenever we don't turn the ball over, we're pretty productive. When you're turning the ball over, you're cutting down on offensive opportunities.
Eric Snow

Down, Pretty, Turn

It was a horrible, terrible, atrocious, offensive football game.
Barry Switzer

Game, Football, Terrible

My mental approach is totally different. My coach predicated everything on defense. He always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it to heart that if you play defense, you can take the heart from an offensive player.
Eric Williams

Heart, Everything, Different

The one effective method of defending one's own territory from an offensive by air is to destroy the enemy's air power with the greatest possible speed.
Giulio Douhet

Power, Enemy, Greatest

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