Insult Quotes - Page 18

• If someone does something illegal on Twitter - like incite hatred, or make racist remarks, or threaten to rip someone's intestines out if they insult Justin Bieber - then there has to be some way of censuring them.

  Tony Parsons

  Rip, Hatred, Way

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• If we have to get married and have a million babies, I hope our relationship will be built on mutual disgust and an endless barrage of ridicule and insults. It feels like the only thing I can count on right now. I don’t want something dumb like respect and affection getting in the way.

  Michael Buckley

  Baby, Want Something, Dumb

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• Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being. Imagine how different our world might be if the Bible contained this as its central precept.

  Sam Harris

  Our World, Abuse, Might

  "Letter to a Christian Nation". Book by Sam Harris, p. 23, 2006.

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• I would gladly say 'Heil Hitler!' and at once part company with him, realizing what a pitiable insult it is to such a great man to try to flatter him with such an imitation which he has always disdained. His way is for Germany, ours is for Britain; let us tread our paths with mutual respect, which is rarely increased by borrowing.

  William Joyce

  Men, Trying, Germany

  "National Socialism Now". Pamphlet issued by the National Socialist League, circa 1938.

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• My wife would not speak evil of ... anyone ... without cause. Joseph is a liar and not she. That Smith admired and lusted after many men's wives and daughters, is a fact, but they could not help that. They or most of them considered his admiration an insult, and treated him with scorn. In return for this scorn, he generally managed to blacken their reputations - see the case of... Mrs. Pratt, a good, virtuous woman.

  William Law

  Daughter, Liars, Men

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• The risk of insult is the price of clarity. To be clearly understood one must speak the simple, essential truth as plainly as he is able.

  Roy H. Williams

  Simple, Risk, Able

  Roy H. Williams (2012). “The Wizard of Ads: Turning Words into Magic And Dreamers into Millionaires”, p.10, BookBaby

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• It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money.

  Al Alvarez

  Insulting, Easy, Persons

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• One does not reflect on a point of honor - that is already dishonor. To submit to insult, to forget a humiliation, to quail before an enemy - all these are signs of a life become worthless and superfluous.

  Oswald Spengler

  Honor, Enemy, Doe

  Oswald Spengler, Charles Francis Atkinson 1880 (1928). “The decline of the West”

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• The First Amendment was specifically designed for citizens to insult politicians. Libel laws were written to protect law students speaking out on political issues from getting called whores by Oxycontin addicts.

  Bill Maher

  Law, Oxycontin, Issues

  "Four Questions for Bill Maher". "Good Morning America" with Jake Tapper, www.yahoo.com. March 15, 2012.

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• A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.

  James Thurber

  Husband, Women, Party

  James Thurber (2002). “Thurber Country: A Collection of Pieces about Males and Females, Mainly of Our Own Species”

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• Some of my unhappiest moments have been in organizations. Somehow it seems to be quite respectable to do things in organizations that you would never do in private life. I have had people insult me to my face in front of colleagues. I have had my feelings rammed down my throat on the pretext that it would do me good. I have been required to do things which I didn't agree with because the organization wished it... In my worst moments I have thought organizations were places designed to be run by sadists and staffed by masochists.

  Charles Handy

  Running, Communication, Worst Moments

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• I just recently realized. It's very strange. But doing fight scenes with Kate [Beckinsale], I was little bit more cautious. You can go harder with a guy, which I don't mean as an insult.

  Colin Farrell

  Mean, Fighting, Guy

  Source: screenrant.com

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• You have the Midas touch. Everything you touch turns to a muffler.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Midas

  Henny Youngman (1994). “Henny Youngman's Bar Jokes, Bar Bets and Bar Tricks”, Outlet

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• The more I think of you, the less I think of you.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  Henny Youngman (1994). “Henny Youngman's Bar Jokes, Bar Bets and Bar Tricks”, Outlet

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• Where did you get your haircut, the pet shop?

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Pet

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• Is that your hat or are you wearing a cabana?

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Hats

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• Cats are possessed of a shy, retiring nature, cajoling, haughty, and capricious, difficult to fathom. They reveal themselves only to certain favored individuals, and are repelled by the faintest suggestion of insult or even by the most trifling deception.

  Pierre Loti

  Appreciation, Cat, Deception

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• I'm a whitebread cracker. That's my favorite white person slur: "whitebread". The other day, someone came up to me and said, "What's up, whitebread?" And I was like, "That's not even an insult. That's just my race plus a food. I can do that, too, black bean soup! Stay out of this, Asian chicken platter!"

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Humor, Race

  "Comedy Central Presents / Mike Birbiglia: 2". www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• I wasn't raised in a household where it was considered abnormal to be gay. So for me to meet people who use the word 'f-ggot' as an insult, with a derogatory meaning, I can't take it.

  Ariana Grande

  Gay, People, Use

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• I think history has shown that the worst way to [try to] bring people over and actually change public opinion is by insult and applied degradation of them.

  E. O. Wilson

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: blog.cleveland.com

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• They who have been exercised in the service of God for a long time, may in their prayers imagine all sorts of insults offered to them, such as blows, wounds, and the like, and so in order to imitate Christ by their charity, may accustom their hearts beforehand to forgive real injuries when they come.

  Philip Neri

  Forgiveness, Prayer, Real

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.41, St Athanasius Press

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• If you are truly merciful, then when what is yours is unjustly taken, don't be sad inside, and do not tell of our loss to your neighbor. Let a better loss, inflicted by those who insult you, be absorbed by your mercy.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Let them push you, but do not push; Let them crucify you, but do not crucify. Let them insult, but do not insult. Let them slander, but do not slander. Be meek, and do not be zealous in evil.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• I think Twitter is the literature of the 21st century. I think it's an incredible art because when you make a book, you don't know who reads it. But every line, I write a million people, they read it, and then they insult me, they love me, they discuss, they give an opinion instantly, immediately. They are completely in communication, immediately. That is a real art.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Art, Real, Book

  "Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Prophetic Vision". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2014.

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• The four eaglets are my four sons who cease not to persecute me even unto death. The youngest of them, whom I now embrace with so much affection, will sometime in the end insult me more grievously and more dangerously than any of the others.

  Henry II of France

  Children, Son, Four

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