Insulting Quotes - Page 5

• A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ocean, Pirate, Ruins

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.147

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• Too many people - some of them judges - seem to think that freedom of speech means freedom from consequences for what you have said. If you believe that, try insulting your boss when you go to work tomorrow. Better yet, try insulting your spouse before going to bed tonight.

  Thomas Sowell

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  "'Academic freedom'?" by Thomas Sowell, townhall.com. February 15, 2005.

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• You don`t build a coalition by insulting our friends or acting like a loose cannon. You do it by putting in the slow, hard work of building relationships.

  Hillary Clinton

  Hard Work, Acting, Building

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• People - whether you like to hear what people have got to say, not you have got to listen to them, and turning your back on people I found very insulting. If you're going to really make peace, you have got to confront each other and look each other in the eye, and that's what's happen - I'm always remember Yitzhak Rabin shaking hands with Yasser Arafat and the reluctance in - Yasser Arafat put his hand down and the reluctance of Yitzhak Rabin, but then he had that second and then he just shook the hand.

  Warren Mundine

  Eye, Hands, People

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• By what you decide to put on your body, for example, you're already making a personal judgement. That's an incredible thing that happens...we set our own standards even before we walk out the door. Most of the time, those standards are self insulting. Most of the time we belittle ourselves, because we can't have the things we think we're suppose to have. That's what we've bought into.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Thinking, Judgement, Incredibles

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Why is the media doing what they're doing? Well, there are many answers for it. I don't mean to be insulting anybody here. Clearly, the media hates Trump, yeah, and clearly the media's a bunch of leftists and they don't like Trump's policies, and clearly this and clearly that. But there's another factor to this, too, that I don't think can be denied - and I think they're scared to death. Donald Trump is unraveling, bit by bit, major elements of the Barack Obama agenda.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hate, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I seldom get self-righteous, and even when I am being impolite (almost always on purpose - there's an art to insulting people, too), I tend to try to not be too serious about it. And most of the time it means that I can take criticism constructively, and sometimes just change my opinion on the fly and laugh at myself over having turned on a dime.

  Linus Torvalds

  Art, Mean, Self

  Source: www.itworld.com

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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

  Insult, Easy, Persons

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• It's insulting when outsiders come in and tell a traumatized people what it will take for them to heal... People who have lived through a terrible conflict may be hungry and desperate, but they are not stupid. They often have very good ideas about how peace can evolve, and they need to be asked. That includes women. Most especially women.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Stupid, Ideas, People

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• We must not mind insulting men, if by respecting them we offend God.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Men, Mind, Ifs

  Saint John Chrysostom, Graham Neville (1977). “Six Books on the Priesthood”, p.65, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• Something like 'Sex And The City' was insulting - women all clawing on to their youth when there's such ripe territory in honestly exploring women's lives as they get older.

  Samantha Bond

  Sex, Cities, Territory

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• Let's stop insulting each other and really get to know people. I mean, have a few beers and go on a fishing trip, and you will find a friend who won't see the world the way you do, but where you can have a really good conversation about it.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Mean, Beer, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think the harsh reviews helped, in that I spent way more energy in the preproduction and development. From this point of view, I'm very thankful for the harsh critics. I still think the critics were unnecessarily insulting in a lot of things, but I think it helped.

  Uwe Boll

  Thinking, Energy, Harsh

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• At least George W. Bush feels like - and I've heard him say it - "You can't judge me now, because look at Abraham Lincoln. When he was in the middle of that war and 600,000 people died, he was vilified for the Gettysburg Address because they felt it was too short and almost insulting, and now you look back and it's considered one of the great speeches of all time and he's considered one of the great presidents of all time."

  Josh Brolin

  War, People, Judging

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I visited North Korea in November 2014, is that Kim Jong-un is not merely the head of state of the DPRK - the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, North Korea - he's also their deity. So, when you insult him as the head of state, you're also insulting the deity, which of course the regime plays to a fare-thee-well to the domestic audience there.

  James R. Clapper

  November, Democratic, North Korea

  Source: www.politico.com

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• If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York

  O. Henry

  New York, Ifs

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• The American nation in the sixth ward is a fine people; they love the eagle - on the back of a dollar.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Eagles, People, Dollars

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• Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.

  Samuel Johnson

  Grateful, Race, Ought

  "The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides".

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• There won't be any revolution in America ... the people are too clean. They spend all their time changing their shirts and washing themselves. You can't feel fierce and revolutionary in a bathroom.

  Eric Linklater

  America, People, Revolution

  'Juan in America' (1931) bk. 5, pt. 3

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• The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Political, Want, Fast Food

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.25, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• America... where law and custom alike are based upon the dreams of spinsters...

  Bertrand Russell

  Dream, Law, America

  "Marriage and Morals".

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• I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Country, Two, Sauce

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• Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.

  Anthony Trollope

  New York, Two, Firsts

  Anthony Trollope (2008). “North America”, p.205, Applewood Books

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• I heard an Englishman, who had been long resident in America, declare that in following, in meeting, or in overtaking, in the street, on the road, or in the field, at the theatre, the coffee-house, or at home, he had never overheard Americans conversing without the word DOLLAR being pronounced between them. Such unity of purpose ... can ... be found nowhere else, except... in an ant's nest.

  Frances Trollope

  Coffee, Home, America

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• The hatred Americans have for their own government is pathological, if understandable. At one level it is simply thwarted greed: since our religion is making a buck, giving a part of that buck to any government is an act against nature.

  Gore Vidal

  Government, Giving, Hatred

  "The State of the Union". Esquire Magazine, May 1975.

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