Offensive quotes
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I like an interesting movie even if it's controversial or offensive, depending on your taste.
-- Adam Brody -
If we would have had the 262 at our disposal - even with all the delays - if we could have had in '44, ah, let's say three hundred operational, that day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that's for sure.
-- Adolf Galland -
For 35 years, I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren't funny. Some of them weren't appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
-- Al Franken -
Faggot isn't offensive to gays; it's got nothing to do with gays.
-- Ann Coulter -
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With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.
-- B. H. Liddell Hart -
It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
If I could start with anybody, I would initially draft Tom Brady. Then I would go get Ray Lewis, and then maybe an offensive lineman, or somebody like Adrian Peterson.
-- Barry Sanders -
Armies are not only for offensives.
-- Bashar al-Assad -
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Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.
-- Benjamin Tucker -
It is dangerous for a spiritual master to accept almost any aspirant. Although it is an aspect of mercy, it is dangerous. The danger also depends on the spiritual potency of the particular guru. Without sufficient potency, a few offensive or faithless disciples can lead to the guru's fall.
-- Bhakti Tirtha Swami -
The offensive presence of Greg Ostertag is quite overwhelming sometimes!
-- Bill Walton -
The cross is offensive because it directly confronts the evils which dominate so much of this world.
-- Billy Graham -
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Offensive linemen are like salt. Nobody ever remembers the brand they buy.
-- Blaine Nye -
I was an offensive defenseman. I was up the ice as much as I was back.
-- Bobby Orr -
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 -
I never find sincerity offensive... so, be sincere.
-- Christopher Meloni -
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Things that are really offensive make me laugh because I like things that push the envelope, go out on a limb, and are bold.
-- Courteney Cox -
I don't find the whole 'cougar' word that offensive.
-- Courteney Cox -
The things closest to the heart of God are often the most offensive to the Pharisees.
-- Craig Groeschel -
As a viewer of television if there's something I don't like or find offensive, I just don't watch it.
-- Dave Navarro -
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Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging offensive ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society.
-- David Harsanyi -
I find you offensive for finding me offensive
-- Eminem -
Of all noxious animals, the most noxious is a tourist. And of all tourists the most vulgar, ill-bred, offensive and loathsome is the British tourist.
-- Francis Kilvert -
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 -
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Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
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 -
It is one thing to mourn for sin because it exposes us to hell, and another to mourn for it because it is an infinite evil. It is one thing to mourn for it because it is injurious to ourselves; another, to mourn for it because it is offensive to God. It is one thing to be terrified; another, to be humbled.
-- Gardiner Spring -
Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it.
-- George Eliot -
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We want to be on the offensive without being offensive.
-- Greg Koukl -
When we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible without being relativistic, convinced without being rigid, willing to confront without being offensive, gentle and forgiving without being soft, and true witnesses without being manipulative.
-- Henri Nouwen -
Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.
-- Holly Lisle -
It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.
-- Homer -
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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
-- Iggy Pop -
All labels are offensive in some way.
-- J Mascis -
Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
-- J. C. Ryle -
As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future.
-- J. F. C. Fuller -
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I don't talk much to offensive linemen in general.
-- Jack Youngblood -
The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.
-- Jacques Delors -
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!
-- Jamaica Kincaid -
It's offensive to me to be called a cost cutter,
-- Jamie Dimon -
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Find the video that has been so offensive to Muslims to be disgusting and reprehensible.
-- Jay Carney -
At what point did we begin to think excellence is offensive to God?
-- Jeff Henderson -
They are by far the worst drivers. They are spiteful, dithering, old and in the way. They should have their licences taken away.
-- Jeremy Clarkson -
When you've finished using a car, put the ***** seat back, so humans can use it afterwards.
-- Jeremy Clarkson -
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If he's going to be the counterfeit of Christ, the Antichrist has to be Jewish. The only thing we know is he must be male and Jewish.
-- Jerry Falwell -
The National Organization of Women is the national organization of witches.
-- Jerry Falwell -
Football is about having the best offensive play possible. I always like to play offensive football, and nobody will convince me otherwise.
-- Johan Cruijff -
When I see that man on the telly - 'Are you thinking what I'm thinking?' No! I'm definitely not! I find most of it quite offensive!
-- John Prescott -
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I haven't really addressed those rumors because why defend yourself against something that isn't offensive?
-- Johnny Galecki -
Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.
-- Josephine Tey -
Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.
-- Judy Blume -
Sending us Ebola bombs in the form of sweaty Glaswegians just isn't cricket.
-- Katie Hopkins -
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Mammary militia breast feeding en masse in Costa. Puts one off their latte.
-- Katie Hopkins -
No fruit dies so vile and offensive a death as the banana...
-- Kiran Desai -
I don't find offensive that I'm being labelled a babe by blokes. I'm absolutely flattered.
-- Kirsty Gallacher -
I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.
-- Marilyn Manson -
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The disconnect between [offensive coordinator] Todd Haley and [quarterback] Ben Roethlisberger is so blatant you can just see it.
-- Marshall Faulk -
Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them.
-- Mel Gibson -
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 -
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Why is it offensive to portray a creep and a murderer as a homosexual, but totally acceptable to present him as a religious Christian?
-- Michael Medved -
Grace is inexplicable, inappropriate, out of bounds, offensive, excessive, & given to the wrong people.
-- Michael Spencer -
You got to sue the offensive line for non-support
-- Mike Ditka -
I wouldn't be the best offensive player if I didn't have a great setter. She serves me up nectar.
-- Misty May-Treanor -
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You continue to build and work on new things, and continue to beat offensive linemen, week in and week out.
-- Ndamukong Suh -
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
-- Nora Ephron -
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 -
You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
-- Prince Charles -
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What makes the Gospel offensive isn’t who it keeps out, but who it lets in.
-- Rachel Held Evans -
Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
-- Ralph Peters -
I went back in British history. Some 204 people died there after a mine collapsed in 1838. In 1866, 361 miners died in Britain. In an explosion in 1894, 290 people died there...These are usual things.
-- Recep Tayyip Erdogan -
Forsake Alcohol, eat grapes instead!
-- Recep Tayyip Erdogan -
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We are against the majority tyrannizing the minority. But we are definitely against the minority tyrannizing the majority.
-- Recep Tayyip Erdogan -
We will not build our offensive game plan around our punter. We will not major in punting.
-- Rex Ryan -
It is essential that the foreign forces who have invaded and occupy large parts of the Congo halt their offensive action
-- Richard Holbrooke -
Real racist jokes or sexist jokes aren't funny - not because they're offensive, but because they're not true. As soon as a joke is based on an untruth, it's not funny.
-- Ricky Gervais -
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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 -
Nevertheless, I tend to get offensive easily.
-- Robert Loggia -
You know, I played football, I was offensive tackle in college.
-- Ruben Studdard -
The notion of American exceptionalism is effective in part because there is little on the face of it that is offensive.
-- Russ Feingold -
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I learned pretty early is I never defend my material; it's for other people to if someone is offended. It's so subjective, and if you don't find it funny, it's definitely going to be offensive.
-- Sarah Silverman -
We never really tried to shock for shock's sake on 'Family Guy'. If something was horribly offensive and shocking, we would put it in if it was also hysterically funny.
-- Seth MacFarlane -
The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive
-- Stefan Molyneux -
‎You cannot correct an old person every time they say something offensive. You would never make it through Thanksgiving dinner!
-- Stephen Colbert -
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People misinterpret what I say all the time: They think I'm being offensive, when really, I'm only being opinionated.
-- Taylor Momsen -
Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.
-- Theodore Parker -
You cant be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.
-- Tom Lehrer -
In one decade, women had gotten more protection against offensive jokes in the workplace than men had gotten in centuries against being killed in the workplace.
-- Warren Farrell -
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I've made this statement many times: If I would have to do it over again, I would have made known the forthcoming Tet Offensive.
-- William Westmoreland -
My aim is not to start a new offensive against Russian soldiers, but to deter Russia from further aggression. The thing is that the EU is always playing by the rules. Putin is always playing with the rules. At the beginning, many thought that, after annexing Crimea, the beast would calm down. But he continued by supporting the so-called separatists in eastern Ukraine.
-- Arseniy Yatsenyuk -
Individuals because of their identity can't render an impartial judgment is just deeply offensive and contrary to all the ideals of the judicial system that we value.
-- Deborah Rhode -
His [Donald Trump ]comments are shocking, offensive and disturbing but I don't believe it merits a ban at this point in time.
-- Keir Starmer -
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Are we going to say sorry for our lack of customer service? Absolutely not.
-- Michael O'Leary -
People say the customer is always right, but you know what - they're not. Sometimes they are wrong and they need to be told so.
-- Michael O'Leary -
In Europe, you can get arrested for being misogynist, arrested for being offensive. You know, these are actual offenses. These are things that police can come and take you away for in Europe. Americans have to understand how bad it is in Europe.
-- Milo Yiannopoulos -
Property is the foundation of every right we have, including the right to be free. Every legal claim, after all, is a claim to something-either a defensive claim to keep what one is holding or an offensive claim to something someone else is holding.
-- Roger Pilon -
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Any filmmaker would want to make something that can still be seen without someone saying, "Ugh that was repulsing, offensive, don't bother visiting it 2nd time."
-- Timo Tjahjanto -
And no matter how good you are you have to work at it. It's non-stop every day, every day. The best the offensive line feels is when the season starts.
-- Russ Grimm -
Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.
-- Hugh Blair -
If you're with an agent and they don't like where your work is going - the pressure behind it is the pressure of the hierarchy which says "I know what I am talking about," which I find offensive.
-- Vanessa Veselka -
