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• Humans live in a world where the weak are dominant. This is a terrible insult to our animal nature, a sort of perversion or a deep contradiction.

  Muriel Barbery

  Animal, World, Contradiction

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Interview with Muriel Barbery, August 31, 2006.

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• A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts in the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Middle East and many other regions.

  Serge Schmemann

  Middle East, Narrative, Conflict

  "From the Editor" by Serge Schmemann, www.nytimes.com. December 02, 2010.

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• Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish - only bless.

  Artur Schnabel

  Sunshine, Insults You, Poison

  Artur Schnabel (1942). “Music and the line of most resistance”, Da Capo Pr

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• It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Atheism, Citizens, Tests

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7: 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814”, p.304, Princeton University Press

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• If we empower ourselves with responsibility over our actions, responsibility over our destinies and responsibility for directing and maintaining and creating our own ethical and moral frameworks, which is the most important thing really isn’t it because perhaps the greatest insult to humanism is this idea that mankind needs a god in order to have a moral framework.

  Stephen Fry

  Responsibility, Destiny, Order

  "The Importance of Unbelief". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense in greatly exaggerated language, only so they can revel to their heart's content in the aroused feelings of hatred and revenge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Heart, Men

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.55, U of Nebraska Press

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• We should never stand upon ceremony with sincerity. We should never cheat and insult and banish one another by our meanness, if there were present the kernel of worth and friendliness. We should not meet thus in haste.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Haste, Sincerity

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.243, Penguin

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• I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences, between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Thinking, Office

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “Lincoln on Lincoln”, p.71, University Press of Kentucky

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• Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading. Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Vices, Amplification

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.56, Modern Library

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• The hundred-point man is one who is true to every trust; who keeps his word; who is loyal to the firm that employs him; who does not listen for insults nor look for slights; who carries a civil tongue in his head; who is polite to strangers without being fresh; who is considerate toward servants; who is moderate in his eating and drinking; who is willing to learn; who is cautious and yet courageous.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Trust, Drinking, Men

  Elbert Hubbard (1908). “Health & Wealth”

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• [The Republican Party] consists of those who, believing in the doctrine that mankind are capable of governing themselves and hating hereditary power as an insult to the reason and an outrage to the rights of men, are naturally offended at every public measure that does not appeal to the understanding and to the general interest of the community.

  James Madison

  Hate, Party, Believe

  James Madison (1867). “1829-1836”, p.482

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• I'm not making light of prayers here, but of so-called school prayer, which bears as much resemblance to real spiritual experienceas that freeze-dried astronaut food bears to a nice standing rib roast. From what I remember of praying in school, it was almost an insult to God, a rote exercise in moving your mouth while daydreaming or checking out the cutest boy in the seventh grade that was a far, far cry from soul-searching.

  Anna Quindlen

  Spiritual, Prayer, Nice

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• Solomon'sexcess became an insult upon the privileges of mankind; for by the same plan of luxury, which made it necessary to have forty thousand stalls of horses,--he had unfortunately miscalculated his other wants, and so had seven hundred wives....
  Wise--deluded man!

  Laurence Sterne

  Wise, Horse, Men

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• Teach positively, never abuse kids in the teaching process. I believe it is cowardly to teach in a negative way, to insult players, or challenge their manhood.

  Gordie Gillespie

  Believe, Teaching, Kids

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• Enjoy the insult as you deliver it, before you learn its cost.

  Mason Cooley

  Cost, Enjoy

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• Insults from an adolescent daughter are more painful, because they are seen as coming not from a child who lashes out impulsively,who has moments of intense anger and of negative feelings which are not integrated into that large body of responses, impressions and emotions we call 'our feelings for someone,' but instead they are coming from someone who is seen to know what she does.

  Terri E Apter

  Daughter, Children, Feelings

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• Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Asking, Crowns, Fool

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• Imitation is the sincerest form of insult.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Imitation, Form

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1912). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

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• President Obama's actions are an unconscionable betrayal of America's fundamental values and a profound insult to the oppressed Cuban people.

  Mario Diaz-Balart

  Betrayal, America, People

  "Florida's Cuban Americans Rejoice At U.S. Policy Overhaul" by Zachary Fagenson and David Adams, www.businessinsider.com. December 17, 2014.

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• The easiest time to add insult to injury is when you're signing somebody's cast.

  Demetri Martin

  Insult To Injury, Add, Casts

  "Demetri Martin. Person". Documentary, www.imdb.com. January 14, 2007.

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• Muslims insult all other religions. The Quran is an insult to the Jews, the Christians and everyone else. It calls the Jews apes, pigs and rats. All the non-believers are najis (filthy, impure) and hell bond. The Quran even instructs the Muslims to fight the unbelievers, chop their fingertips, behead them, crucify them and deal with them harshly. 5:33, 9:14, 9:73 However, Muslims went berserk when a Danish Newspaper published a few cartoons of Muhammad.

  Ali Sina

  Christian, Fighting, Pigs

  Source: myislam.dk

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• Islam has taken everything from its wretched believers. They are robbed from their identity and self pride. All they have now is Islam. That is why Islam for Muslims is more than just a religion. It is their identity. When you criticize Islam, they perceive it as an attack on their identity and cringe with pain. They take that not only as an insult but also as an assault on their person. Like a corned animal they become vicious and fight back with all their might - a fight of survival. That is why you see such a violent reaction to a few silly cartoons.

  Ali Sina

  Pain, Silly, Taken

  Source: myislam.dk

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• I don't think simple is an insult. Something that's really simple and great is probably harder to do than something more complex.

  Ira Kaplan

  Simple, Thinking, Harder

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The teen years are extremely serious and everything matters and every insult really hurts. I know there are cliques and bullying. And you don't yet ­understand that it will all go away.

  Steve Martin

  Bullying, Hurt, Years

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• Keep memories of insult on a short leash, and memories of blessing on a long one.

  Alan Cohen

  Memories, Blessing, Long

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