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  • The demands of the economy, and more recently those of political correctness and the diktat against ever offending anyone, are not conducive to a classroom or university seminar climate in which genuinely free and critical reflection on how to live prospers.

    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • I often look ridiculous in Japan. There's really no way to eat in Japan, particularly kaiseki in a traditional ryokan, without offending the Japanese horribly. Every gesture, every movement is just so atrociously wrong, and the more I try, the more hilarious it is.

  • I’m sorry, my lady,” said Geric, rubbing his arm. “But I failed to force an apology out of the offending goose.

    Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.186, A&C Black
  • I should willingly give every drop of my blood to please Him and to prevent sinners offending Him. I shall be satisfied only when I am a victim to make reparation for my innumerable sins and for the sins of all the world.

  • 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.

  • No Compromise is what the whole Gospel of Jesus is all about... 'For I tell you...no man can serve two masters...' (Matt. 6:24). In a day when believers seem to be trying to please both the world and the Lord (which is an impossible thing), when people are far more concerned about offending their friends than offending God, there is only one answer...Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Him!

  • How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?

    Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.849, Xist Publishing
  • I am disappointed to find myself accused in some papers of supplying the offending sweets, particularly as I am a fruit pastille man.

    Sweet   Men   Offending  
  • The great improvement of the radio over the telephone is that it may be turned off without offending the speaker.

    Offending   May   Radio  
  • It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state of civilization is as odious as it is unjust. It is absolutely the opposite of what it should be, and it is necessary that a revolution should be made in it. The contrast of affluence and wretchedness continually meeting and offending the eye, is like dead and living bodies chained together

    Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.781, e-artnow
  • May we dedicate our lives to serving the Lord and not worry about offending the devil.

    Offending   Worry   Devil  
  • In comedy you sometimes have to look at the funny bone a little bit. So, that was the hardest part - was not offending. I'm not laughing at anybody. We're laughing together about who we are - and the funnier part of who we are. I'm (sure) not writing this and calling you a stereotype. I'm not doing that.

    "Writer-director Corbin Bernsen finds a well-matched creative partner in 'Christian Mingle'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. February 2015.
  • We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.

    John Ruskin (1854). “On the Nature of Gothic Architecture: And Herein of the True Functions of the Workman in Art ...”, p.15
  • If you go to a diner in the middle of America, people are having these conversations, but our politicians are too scared to bring it up because they're worried about offending the 0.002 percent of the country that may somehow be subject to what the conversation may be. And it's ridiculous.

    Source: www.foxnews.com
  • Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.

    Grover Cleveland, United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland), United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland) (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”
  • If you are not offending people, then you are not an evangelist.

    Offending   People   Ifs  
    Source: matthiasmedia.com
  • I'm really proud ofGunsmoke. We put on a good show every week-one that families could all watch together without offending anyone.

  • Had be been Shakespeare, he would then have written Troilus and Cressidato brand the offending sex; but being only a little dog, he began to bite them.

    Funny   Dog   Sex  
    Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Memories and Portraits: Stevenson's Vol. 21”, p.67, VM eBooks
  • It's very irresponsible as a parent to follow Tipper Gore or the Religious Right's advice and just take the offending CD or game away from the kid without discussing it.

    Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.
  • Genuine bravery for a writer... It is about calmly speaking the truth when everyone else is silenced, when the truth cannot be expressed. It is about speaking out with a different voice, risking the wrath of the state and offending everyone, for the sake of the truth, and the writer's conscience.

    Voice   Wrath   Offending  
  • My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

    Horatio Nelson's letter to his mistress Lady Hamilton, 1800.
  • It's impossible to go through life not offending people. All you have to do is basically have an opinion on anything, and you're gonna offend people.

  • The fear of offending can be stronger than the fear of pain

  • Forgiveness involves pardon. Basically, that is like erasing their offenses toward us from a marking board. We immediately wash their offenses away like a wave washing away a message in the sand. Second, forgiveness involves caring for the offending person because most people who offend us have something in their own heart that needs healing. When we forgive others, they are released from our anger and we are healed by God.

  • A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They've been offending other people for centuries.

    "Billy Connolly: 'My ambition is to be regarded as a nuisance'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2012.
  • But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. We would be making the same mistake that Reverend Wright made in his offending sermons about America - to simplify and stereotype and amplify the negative to the point that it distorts reality.

    A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA
  • The extremes to which Western elites will go to avoid blaming radical Islam for terrorism cripples our efforts to protect innocent Muslims. Terrified of offending butchers, we insist that we're the bigots, not them. We make excuses for monsters.

  • I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious.

    Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. August 31, 2011.
  • don't be angry with the gentleman for thinking, whatever be the cause, for I assure you he makes no common practice of offending in that way.

    Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.397, Delphi Classics
  • Instead of lowering your head and copping to it like a man, you pick up the journal as one might hold a bady's beshattered diaper, as one might pinch a recently benutted condom. You glance at the offending passages. Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel. This is how you lose her.

    Baby   Men   Offending  
    "Alma" by Junot Díaz, www.newyorker.com. December 24, 2007.
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