Insulting Quotes - Page 14

• I am not well suited to the tasks that are set before me today. Most of what I must do is either insulting to my intelligence, or far beyond my capabilities. This explains why I am so frustrated and full of rage most of the time.

  John S. Hall

  Frustrated, Tasks, Today

  "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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• If you're asking if I would be foolish enough, or insulting enough, to write about people in my life that I respect and sell it to the masses as a "break-up song," I can't imagine doing that to people I love.

  Jack White

  Song, Writing, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Persecution means an attempt to drive out, attempt to subjugate, and there are various ways that that can be done. Sarah Palin's opponents and her critics would like to see her leave the public square by insulting, degrading, demeaning, abusing and ridiculing her, and - by pretending that she has nothing to say.

  Matthew Continetti

  Mean, Squares, Done

  "Without Further Ado, Sarah Palin Returns". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 20, 2009.

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• The Russians are going to be expansionist whether we [USA] provoke them to it or not. Russians keep saying that we're trying to encircle them. In what sense does the independence of Kosovo, a land-locked province, former Yugoslavia, with no common border with Russia, threaten Russia with encirclement? This is insulting. In what sense does the independence of Georgia constitute an encirclement? What we are facing, and we may as well give it its right name, is what I called it earlier, a chauvinistic, theocratic in part, xenophobic Russian imperialism.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Land, Yugoslavia, Names

  Source: www.npr.org

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• For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible and insulting.

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Poverty, Rich, Poor

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• If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him, don't you think?

  P. D. James

  Thinking, Sin, Defying

  P.D. James (2015). “P. D. James’s Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries: Cover Her Face, A Mind to Murder, Unnatural Causes, Shroud for a Nightingale, The Black Tower, and Death of an Expert Witness”, p.784, Simon and Schuster

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• We have freedom to demonstrate in Germany, but there is no place for incitement and insulting people who come to us from other countries.

  Angela Merkel

  Country, Freedom, People

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• In the newspapers there is insulting and stirring up hatred. Those irresponsible daubers!

  Joseph Goebbels

  Hatred, Newspapers, Stirring

  "Michael: a German fate in diary notes". Book by Joseph Goebbels, 1926.

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• I got hundreds of emails insulting me, accusing me of being some caveman. I am by no means a Luddite. I have two iPods. I have a cell phone. I have cable TV, HDTV!

  Sherman Alexie

  Mean, Ipods, Accusing Me

  "Sherman Alexie: Don’t Call Me Warrior". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. November 2009.

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• The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Flying, England, Calm

  Address in Reply to His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech, hansard.millbanksystems.com. November 01, 1950.

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• You may not agree with a woman, but to criticize her appearance — as opposed to her ideas or actions — isn't doing anyone any favors, least of all you. Insulting a woman's looks when they have nothing to do with the issue at hand implies a lack of comprehension on your part, an inability to engage in high-level thinking. You may think she's ugly, but everyone else thinks you're an idiot.

  Hillary Clinton

  Women, Thinking, Hands

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• Critical words to a child are as painful and damaging as being physically hit. They are verbal slaps in the face. Usually, critical words are accompanied by threats, name-calling, and yelling. This verbal abuse can be especially damaging. Insulting names echo in a child's mind over and over again until he comes to believe he is indeed stupid, selfish, lazy, or ugly and that in fact, that is all he is.

  Beverly Engel

  Children, Stupid, Selfish

  Beverly Engel (2002). “The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing”, p.71, John Wiley & Sons

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• You might not be ready for diplomacy with Beijing if you can't visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally.

  Barack Obama

  Allies, Olympics, Might

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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