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  • If you throw one stone, it’s a punishable offence. If 1,000 stones are thrown, it’s political action. If you set a car on fire, it’s a punishable offence. If hundreds of cars are set on fire, it’s political action. Protest is when I say I don’t agree with something. Resistance is when I ensure that things with which I disagree no longer take place.

    Fire   Car   Political  
  • Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.

  • Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another.

    Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.138, Vivekananda Kendra
  • Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.

    Satire   Offence  
    'A Tale of a Tub' (1704) 'The Author's Preface'
  • Man and wife are equally concerned, to avoid all offence of each other, in the beginning of their conversation. Every little thing can blast an infant blossom.

    Men   Wife   Littles  
    Thomas Smart Hughes, Thomas Sherlock, Jeremy Taylor (1837). “Summaries of the sermons and discourses of Sherlock and Jeremy Taylor”, p.309
  • Humble people dont get Offended easily.

    Yoga   Humility   Humble  
  • There's a difference between maliciously offending somebody - on purpose - and somebody being offended by...truth. If you're offended by the truth, that's your problem. I have no obligation to not offend you if I'm speaking the truth. The truth is supposed to offend you; that's how you know you don't got it.

  • Ethical religion affirms the continuity of progress toward moral perfection. It affirms that the spiritual development of the human race cannot be prematurely cut off, either gradually or suddenly; that every stone of offence against which we stumble is a stepping-stone to some greater good; that, at the end of days, if we choose to put it so, or, rather, in some sphere beyond the world of space and time, all the rays of progress will be summed and centred in a transcendent focus.

    "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.
  • Now, if anything at all can be known to be wrong, it seems to me to be unshakably certain that it would be wrong to make any sentient being suffer eternally for any offence whatever.

    Antony Flew (1984). “God, freedom, and immortality: a critical analysis”
  • When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive; for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and offence against the gods.

    Taken   Two   Mind  
    Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1996). “Sophocles: Fragments”, p.245, Harvard University Press
  • I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.

    Truth   Men   Simplicity  
    Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman (2010). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, the Journal of John Woolman, Fruits of Solitude by William Penn”, p.207, Cosimo, Inc.
  • I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.

    'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. [124]
  • There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover the infinity of things, the immensity of Nature, the heavens, the earth, and the seas; this is that branch which has taught us religion, moderation, magnanimity, and that has rescued the soul from obscurity; to make her see all things above and below, first and last, and between both; it is this that furnishes us wherewith to live well and happily, and guides us to pass our lives without displeasure and without offence.

    Knowledge   Mean   Sea  
  • The abuse of children is the worst offence that anybody can commit.

  • Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]

  • A small unkindness is a great offence.

    Hannah More (1853). “Tragedies, poems”, p.338
  • Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right.

    Feet   Evil   Offence  
    Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.317, Delphi Classics
  • Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous.Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful.

    "Message in a Bottle". Book by Nicholas Sparks, April 1, 1998.
  • Ah Franion, treason is loved of many, but the Traitor hated of all: unjust offences may for a time escape without danger, but never without revenge.

    Revenge   Unjust   May  
    Robert Greene, La Serre (Jean-Puget, M. de) (1588). “Greene's "Pandosto" or "Dorastus and Fawnia": being the original of Shakespeare's "Winter's tale"”, p.9
  • Officers, what offence have these men done? DOGBERRY Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.

    Lying   Men   Done  
    1598 Dogberry to Don Pedro. Much Ado About Nothing, act 5, sc.1, l.208-12.
  • It ought to be a criminal offence for women to dye their hair. Especially red. What the devil do women do that sort of thing for?

    Hair   Devil   Criminals  
    P. G. Wodehouse (2011). “Indiscretions of Archie”, p.282, The Floating Press
  • Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind.

    Edward Gibbon (1846). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.444
  • I think the origin of all this clamour for tonality is not so much the need to sense a relationship to the tonic, as a need for familiar chords: let us be frank and say "for the triad"; and I believe I have good reason to say that just so long as a certain kind of music contains enough such triads, it causes no offence, even if in other ways it most violently clashes with the sacred laws of tonality.

    Believe   Thinking   Law  
    "Schoenberg: A Critical Biography". Book by Willi Reich, p. 34, 1971.
  • But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.

    Offence  
    Alan Paton (2011). “Too Late The Phalarope”, p.276, Simon and Schuster
  • There are offences given and offences not given but taken.

    Izaak Walton (1833). “The Complete Angler ; Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation; Being a Discourse on Rivers, Ponds, Fish and Fishing. With Lives and Notes”, p.33
  • That general warrants, whereby an officer or messenger may be commanded to search suspected places without evidence of a fact committed, or to seize any person or persons not named, or whose offence is not particularly described and supported by evidence, are grievous and oppressive, and ought not to be granted.

    May   Messengers   Facts  
    "The Federal and State Constitutions Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the States, Territories, and Colonies Now or Heretofore Forming the United States of America" compiled and edited by Newton Thorpe, Washington, DC : Government Printing Office, 1909.
  • It surely can be no offence to state, that the progress of science has led to new views, and that the consequences that can be deduced from the knowledge of a hundred facts may be very different from those deducible from five. It is also possible that the facts first known may be the exceptions to a rule and not the rule itself, and generalisations from these first-known facts, though useful at the time, may be highly mischievous, and impede the progress of the science if retained when it has made some advance.

  • Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others' bare.

    Light   Air   Flames  
    William Cowper (1855). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life, and Critical Notice of His Writings. Eight Engravings on Steel”, p.78
  • If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him, when you cannot charge him with any offence against any written law – if that is not what we have always cried out against in Fascist states – then what is it?… If we are to survive as a free democracy, then we must be prepared, in principle, to concede to our enemies – even those who do not subscribe to our views – as much constitutional rights as you concede yourself.

    Men   Law   Rights  
    Legislative Assembly Debates, September 21, 1955.
  • Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.

    "Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 750,
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