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• In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get...Is that because women are considered something less?

  Andrej Pejic

  Men, This Society, Ifs

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• Whoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to capital punishment.

  Anjem Choudary

  Punishment, Messages, Subjects

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• For God to prove himself on demand, physically, would be a grave disappointment, and the strongest Christians should be considerably grateful that he chooses not to do so. The skeptic endlessly demands proof, yet God refuses to insult the true intelligence of man, the '6th sense', the chief quality, the acumen which distinguishes man from the rest of creation, faith.

  Criss Jami

  Christian, Atheist, Disappointment

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.80, Criss Jami

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• For most Native Americans, there's no more offensive name in English. That non-Native folks think they get to measure or decide what offends us is adding insult to injury.

  Suzan Shown Harjo

  Native American, Thinking, Names

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• If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Believe, Journalism, Comeback

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• Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist!

  Charles Studd

  Lying, Blood, Lame

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• The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets and critics are read by our most esteemed critics and poets (who don't usually like them much) and nobody else takes any notice. An increasing number of highly literate people simply ignore what the 'Highbrows' are doing. It says nothing to them. The Highbrows in return ignore and insult them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Race, Numbers, America

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.276, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• We are fighting so that insults may no longer rule our countries, martyred and scorned for centuries, so that our peoples may never more be exploited by imperialists not only by people with white skin, because we do not confuse exploitation or exploiters with the colour of men's skins; we do not want any exploitation in our countries, not even by black people.

  Amilcar Cabral

  Country, Fighting, Men

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• Some important ideas from the book of early Christians which is called Philokalia: From Spiritual Directions of Diadochus of Photiki The acme of faith is... immersion of the mind in God. The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess. The acme of humbleness is to forget unfalteringly good deeds of oneself. The acme of love is to enhance your friendly attitude to those who insult and revile you.

  Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

  Christian, Spiritual, Attitude

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• At root, a pearl is a 'disturbance' a beauty caused by something that isn't supposed to be there, about which something needs to be done. It is the interruption of equilibrium that creates beauty. Beauty is a response to provocation, to intrusion. ... The pearl's beauty is made as a result of insult.

  Julia Cameron

  Beauty, Roots, Needs

  Julia Cameron (2005). “The Sound of Paper”, p.14, Penguin

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• I'm always at my best when I'm fighting a guy who insults me..questions my integrity; it lights more fire in me.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Integrity, Fighting, Fire

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• . . . I felt that making her one-dimensional would be an insult to the audience, and also not as interesting. All destructive people have an inner side to them, and the more three-dimentional your characters are on screen the more compassion you can open up in an audience . . .. To me, that involves the audience more, it stimulates them and asks more of them.

  Richard LaGravenese

  Character, Compassion, People

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• [A] truly humble spirit humbles itself as much amid honors as amid insults, acting like the honeybee which makes its honey equally as well from the dew that falls on the wormwood as from that which falls on the rose.

  Vincent de Paul

  Fall, Humble, Rose

  Saint Vincent de Paul (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: I. Correspondence. v. 1. 1607-1639”, BNA Books (Bureau of National Affairs)

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• You can't provoke, you can't insult the faith of others, you can't make fun of faith.

  Pope Francis

  Fun, Provoking

  "After Paris attacks, Pope speaks out against insulting religions" by Philip Pullella, www.reuters.com. January 15, 2015.

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• Believing in religion is an insult to God, because God means high intelligence and what intelligence there is in religion? Let us save the God from the religion, from fables for children! God has never spoken yet; He has been remaining in silent for millions of years somewhere outside our universe!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Children, Believe, Mean

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• Some form of gnosis or immediacy is attached to all thinking as its root-form or primitive origination; every act of thinking has this passive derivation, this coming-into-being of thinking not out of nothing (as it likes to imagine) but out of some unthinkable something. But the most self-abstractivist or self-reductivist kind of thinking cannot tolerate even the notion (much less the traumatic experience or confrontation) of an incurable pathos, a weakness or blind-spot, within consciousness. The very idea is an insult to the autonomy or self-determinability of ego/will/reason.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Thinking, Ideas

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• Muslims consider the honor of the Prophet Muhammad to be dearer to them than that of their parents or even themselves. To defend it is considered to be an obligation upon them. The strict punishment if found guilty of this crime under sharia, the Islamic law, is capital punishment implementable by an Islamic State. This is because the Messenger Muhammad said, ‘Whoever insults a Prophet, kill him.’

  Anjem Choudary

  Islamic, Punishment, Law

  "Anjem Choudary says woman who organised Muhammed cartoon contest should face death penalty under Sharia Law" by Christopher Bucktin, www.mirror.co.uk. May 7, 2015.

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• The greatest insult came at the marriage ceremony when the minister asked 'who giveth this woman,' and some brother, or father or other man, unblushingly said he did, as though it were entirely a commercial transaction between men.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Marriage, Brother, Father

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• In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style.

  Criss Jami

  Philosophical, Style, Dialect

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.129, Criss Jami

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• I think girls who insult people are very attractive.

  Howard Hawks

  Girl, Thinking, People

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• Complaining is an insult to God.

  Monica Mcgowan Johnson

  Complaining

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• it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.

  Myrtle Reed

  People, House, Guests

  Myrtle Reed (1904). “The Book of Clever Beasts: Studies in Unnatural History”

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• Violent predators are not like the rest of us. They kill for fun, for sport, for the sake of it. To compare them to animals is an insult to animals. To expect that we can rehabilitate them assumes a will to change.

  Susan Estrich

  Sports, Fun, Animal

  Susan Estrich (2016). “Love of Country: Discovering confidence in humanity, law and politics”, p.20, Creators Publishing

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• Sometimes I have wished my insults were slaps or lashes; I've wanted to hit people in the face and make them see, if only for a day, what I see each day I help people.

  Evita Peron

  People, Each Day, Faces

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• Christians are the only group Hollywood can offend with impunity, the only creed it actually goes out of its way to insult... The tenets of Christianity are regularly held up to ridicule.

  Don Feder

  Christian, Religious, Way

  Don Feder (1993). “A Jewish conservative looks at pagan America”, Vital Issues Pr

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