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• If you are offended by reading views that disagree with yours, then yes, you will be offended. However, it is not gratuitously offensive, it simply puts an argument, and if your views are strong enough, as I believe they are, you will be able to defend your views. You will not say, "Oh, it's offensive, it's offensive." You will say "No, you are wrong here and you are wrong here," and that's what you should do.

  Richard Dawkins

  Strong, Fear, Believe

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• There isn't a single government agency that can't function. There's more money in this federal government, there's more money allocated than these people can possibly spend. They have to concoct asinine ways to spend it, like advertising for new food stamp users. I've gotten to the point, I'm just so righteously indignant and offended at the very idea that our government could ever run out of money when we've got a printing press, for crying out loud. Printed three and a half trillion dollars over seven years and flooded Wall Street with it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Wall, Years

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• I'm sentimental about Jesus on the cross. Jesus was a Jew, and also I believe he was a catalyst, and I think he offended people because his message was to love your neighbour as yourself; in other words, no one is better than somebody else. He embraced all people, whether it was a beggar on the street or a prostitute, and he admonished a group of Jews who were not observing the precepts of the Torah. So he rattled a lot of people's cages.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Jesus, Believe, Love You

  Source: www.independent.ie

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• The charity of good women is such that their 'love makes no parade'; they are not glad 'when others go wrong'; they are too busy serving to sit statusfully about, waiting to be offended.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Waiting, Good Woman, Charity

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• The courts demand that every religious person must accommodate a single atheist who might be 'offended' at the favorable mention of God's name. But no atheist can be forced to accommodate a single religious person who might be offended by the atheist's unbelief, or who wants to be part of the pluralism and diversity about which liberals regularly speak, but which is not broad enough to embrace people who believe in God.

  Cal Thomas

  Religious, Atheist, Believe

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• Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Cutting, Wounded

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• I love being prayed for! I know that sounds strange, and I've had people ask me if I'm offended when Liberty students pray for me, since they're (usually) praying that I'll see the light and become a born-again Christian. But there's no malice behind it. They simply believe that unsaved people are in trouble, spiritually, and they want to make sure I'm safe from damnation. In a way, given their beliefs about the afterlife, it'd be mean for them NOT to pray for my salvation.

  Kevin Roose

  Christian, Believe, Mean

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• [David Milch] had say, "You have to understand that our history of western movies, what we've been doing in westerns since the movies began to talk, you had audiences that would be offended by certain things, and there was a cleaning-up of the way people spoke."

  Keith Carradine

  People, Would Be, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• a diplomat ... is not worthy of the name unless he can say 'no' and make the other person like it - or at least not be offended by it.

  Margery Wilson

  Names, Diplomats, Worthy

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• The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things.

  John Ruskin

  Choices, Understanding, Weakness

  John Ruskin (1867). “The Stones of Venice”, p.195

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• Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.

  John Stuart Mill

  Punishment, Giving, Criminals

  John Stuart Mill (1849). “Principles of political economy, with some of their applications to social philosophy”, p.541

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• That is the most confusing and insane thing to me, when people get offended on behalf of another group.

  Brad Williams

  People, Confusing, Insane

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

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• God isn't offended by your biggest dreams or boldest prayers. He is offended by anything less. If your prayers aren't impossible to you, they are insulting to God.

  Mark Batterson

  Dream, Prayer, Insulting

  Mark Batterson (2011). “Be a Circle Maker: The Solution to 10,000 Problems”, p.6, Zondervan

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• No one should feel at all offended or threatened by the obvious fact that we are not all born entirely blank, or entirely the same, in our mixture of the broad behavioral propensities defining what we call "temperament".

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Mixtures, Facts, Defining

  "The Lying Stones of Marrakech". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, "The Internal Brand of the Scarlet W", p. 281, 2001.

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• Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.

  Jack Germond

  Groups, Minorities, Sense Of Humor

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• Apologies; our cultural obsession with them isn't about actually being offended, or simply needing to hear, “I'm sorry.” It's not really about right or wrong. It's about wanting to throw a rock in the dark and hear something break.

  Jim Norton

  Sorry, Dark, Apology

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• Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.

  Arthur Helps

  Life, Vanity, Social

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• I think the church has to apologize not only to the gay person it has offended, but also to the poor, to women who are exploited, to children forced into labor and for having blessed so many weapons in the past.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Blessed, Gay

  "Church Should Apologize To Gays, Pope Francis Says". The Pope’s Press Conference on Flight from Armenia, www.npr.org. June 27, 2016.

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• What's doubly, possibly triply weird about the [Donald] Trump claim is that I said something really hateful and offended an entire class of people, and in a case that actually has nothing to do with race he should still be conflicted out.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Race, Class, People

  Source: www.slate.com

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• No one should be offended - that's not my style.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Style, Should

  "Jesse Eisenberg explains why he hates watching his own movies". Interview by Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. March 31, 2016.

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• My personal attitude is this: I will stand for revival, unity and prayer; I will labor to restore healing and reconciliation between God's people. Yet, if all God truly wanted was to raise up one fully yielded son--a son who would refuse to be offended, refuse to react, refuse to harbor unforgiveness regardless of those who slander and persecute--I have determined to be that person. My primary goal in all things is not revival, but to bring pleasure to Christ.

  Francis Frangipane

  Prayer, Attitude, Healing

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• I think that there's etiquette for every means of communication. People are very judgmental and have strict rules. I don't think you should end a relationship with a Post-it note. I know some people who get offended when an e-mail is sent as a "thank you" note instead of a hand-written card.

  Debra Messing

  Communication, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I'm not offended or embarrassed by the fact that I design clothes for women to wear. So when I meet women who love my clothes, it's a really good, straightforward thing. It makes me feel like I'm doing my job right.

  Stella McCartney

  Jobs, Clothes, Design

  Source: www.elle.com

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• There's a lot of terminology, like "washes whiter than snow," and these things which when they're said in a uniracial congregation, they just go fine. But when they're said in a mixed congregation, some people will get offended and wonder, "Why are you saying that? What are you saying?"

  Michael Emerson

  People, Snow, Wonder

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I never meet a church that wishes they didn't do it. I never meet a leader that wishes they didn't do it. They will all say, to the person, it's hard. It's difficult. It comes with complexities and confusion as you're trying to go across cultures, and you don't understand, you didn't mean to offend somebody but you've offended somebody. But they will all say it just does something.

  Michael Emerson

  Mean, Confusion, Leader

  Source: www.pbs.org

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