Easily Offended Quotes

• We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.

  Brit Hume

  Feelings, Literature, Victim

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• I know how guys talk, so I'm not easily offended. Guys can fight and be best friends five minutes later. Women have to air it out, hold on to it, work on it.

  Kim Delaney

  Fighting, Air, Guy

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• The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Men, Insulted Him

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.67, First Avenue Editions

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• God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed His name to go long offended.

  David Wilkerson

  Christian, Offended You, Names

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• There is no true and constant gentleness without humility. While we are so fond of ourselves, we are easily offended with others. Let us be persuaded that nothing is due to us, and then nothing will disturb us. Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we will become indulgent towards those of others.

  Francois Fenelon

  Humility, Thinking, Constant

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• Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended.

  Bruce Lee

  Trouble, Offended

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.375, Tuttle Publishing

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• So, the tendency of our childish nature is to take small things too seriously and get easily offended, whereas when we are confronted with situations which have long-term consequences, we tend to take things less seriously

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Long, Tendencies

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• Everyone's extremely and easily offended now.

  Brad Williams

  Offended

  "Interview with comedian Brad Williams". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Pride, Offended You, Wish

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• The most depressing thing about blogging is watching so-called 'citizen journalists' turn in to little more than easily offended partisan hacks. Any remark that is slightly less than completely and totally scripted and can give the slightest opportunity to offend some delicate soul somewhere is used to set off a series of partisan screeches and cries of outrage that would make the Church Lady jealous.

  John Cole

  Depressing, Jealous, Opportunity

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• Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Husband, Angel, Men

  "Love Among the Artists". Book by George Bernard Shaw, 1900.

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• Love is all around you like the air and is the very breath of your being. But you cannot know it, feel its unfeeling touch, until you pause in your busy-ness, are still and poised and empty of your wanting and desiring. When at rest the air is easily offended and will flee even from the fanning of a leaf, as love flees from the first thought. But when the air or love moves of its own accord it is a hurricane that drives all before it.

  Barry Long

  Life, Moving, Love Is

  "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.

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• Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.

  Francois Fenelon

  Thinking, Infirmity

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

  Billy Connolly

  Religious, Offending, People

  "Billy Connolly: 'My ambition is to be regarded as a nuisance'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2012.

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• I'm not easily offended. I have a pretty high tolerance for raunchiness or shock value, so I'm the wrong person to use as a gauge.

  Rashida Jones

  Tolerance, Gauges, Use

  "Rashida Jones ‘I Love You, Man’". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. March 9, 2009.

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• Are Singaporeans so easily offended? Please. Have more of a backbone and thick-skin. Are you going to go on a frenzied witch hunt just because some foreigner called you a loser on the Internet?

  Calvin Cheng

  Skins, Goes On, Loser

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• I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can't tell to an audience. There's a fine line you have to tread because you don't know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.

  Billy Connolly

  Offended You, Differences, People

  "Billy Connolly: 'My ambition is to be regarded as a nuisance'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2012.

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• Our enmity toward God takes on many labels, such as rebellion, hard-heartedness, stiff-neckedness, unrepentant, puffed up, easily offended, and sign seekers. The proud wish God would agree with them. They aren't interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Offended You, Wish, Proud

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