Offensive Quotes - Page 12

• If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.

  William J. Brennan

  Government, Expression, Ideas

  "Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397". 1989.

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• Faggot isn't offensive to gays; it's got nothing to do with gays.

  Ann Coulter

  Gay, Homosexuality

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• I am sometimes perplexed by people who refer to defensive rifles, or defensive rifle shooting. The defensive arm is the pistol, since you have it at hand to meet situations that you do not anticipate. If you have the luxury of anticipating a lethal encounter, you pick up a long arm, either a rifle or a shotgun, but in that case you go on to the attack. Thus rifle shooting is offensive, and pistol shooting is defensive. Of course, life does not always duplicate theory, and there are exceptions to everything, but nevertheless the rifle is not a defensive weapon in concept.

  Jeff Cooper

  Gun, Hands, Luxury

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• Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed and rightly.

  Seneca the Younger

  Grief, Air, Console

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXIII)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1917.

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• Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.

  Josephine Tey

  Education, Women, Memorable

  "The Franchise Affair".

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• Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to "bind me in all cases whatsoever" to his absolute will, am I to suffer it?

  Thomas Paine

  War, Believe, Thinking

  1776 The Crisis, introduction, Dec.

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• I sought to reform minstrelsy among refined people by making words suitable to their taste, instead of the trashy and really offensive words which belong to some songs of that order. ... Some of my songs should be performed in a pathetic, not a comic style.

  Stephen Foster

  Song, Order, People

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• The Republic can count on me to battle its enemies... Offensive war suits the passionate character of the French, but it is the responsibility of the man in charge of leading them to prepare with caution and wisdom everything that leads to victory.

  Tom Reiss

  War, Character, Responsibility

  Tom Reiss (2012). “The Black Count: Glory, revolution, betrayal and the real Count of Monte Cristo”, p.163, Random House

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• We want to be on the offensive without being offensive.

  Greg Koukl

  Want

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• I haven't really addressed those rumors because why defend yourself against something that isn't offensive?

  Johnny Galecki

  Rumor, Havens

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• It really isn't anybody's business how many people we have working for us. What's offensive is that I'm portrayed as this prima donna with these sycophants telling me how great I am all the time. Yes, they do work for me, but we're working together for a higher good.

  Demi Moore

  People, Working Together, Sycophants

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• Congratulations, Congress! 77% disapproval rating! You may be about to become the English language's most offensive C-word.

  John Oliver

  Congratulations, May, Language

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• You got to sue the offensive line for non-support

  Mike Ditka

  Support, Lines, Offensive Line

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• Use karate, judo, aikido, or any style to build your counter-offensive. It will be interesting!

  Bruce Lee

  Interesting, Style, Aikido

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Letters of the Dragon: An Anthology of Bruce Lee's Correspondence with Family, Friends, and Fans 1958-1973”, p.39, Tuttle Publishing

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• Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard.

  William Hurt

  Trying, Arbitrary, Actors

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, suicidegirls.com. September 18, 2005.

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• I am, I hope, never offensive by accident.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Accidents

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• I look at how we got beat and I thought the hustle points and the energy points were all gauged through offensive rebounds. I thought in the second half they got so many second-chance opportunities they could really run. It just seemed like they were going up our guys' backs. When you don't get any offensive rebounds and they start going the other team's way, it's almost like a snowball effect.

  Ray Allen

  Running, Team, Opportunity

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• I've lately had two spiders Crawling upon my startled hopes-- Now though thy friendly hand has brushed 'em from me, Yet still they crawl offensive to mine eyes: I would have some kind friend to tread upon 'em.

  Colley Cibber

  Eye, Hands, Two

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• At what point did we begin to think excellence is offensive to God?

  Jeff Henderson

  Leadership, Thinking, Excellence

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• Football is about having the best offensive play possible. I always like to play offensive football, and nobody will convince me otherwise.

  Johan Cruijff

  Football, Play, Convince

  "Cruyff Says 4-5-1 Is a Sign of Bunker Mentality" by Lawrence Donegan, www.theguardian.com. October 01, 2005.

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• Im not the voice of reason; Im more the guy using these offensive topics as fodder to raise tension in a joke.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Voice, Guy, Topics

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• You cant be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

  Tom Lehrer

  Satirical, Cant

  "Tom Lehrer" by Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 24, 2000.

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• Conditions to the north of us, in the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts zone of action, and our offensive on Kharkov demands that we not lose time and we commit all forces so that we can draw off as many divisions as possible from Kharkov. And even if we do not draw them off, at least we will not give Manstein the ability to take any of his units from our part of the front. If we attract one or two German tank divisions - it will be the best contribution to the defeat of the enemy in the south.

  Aleksandr Vasilevsky

  Two, Giving, Enemy

  "Soviet Military Deception in the Second World War" by David M. Glantz, (p. 228), 1989.

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• Real Christianity is lovely. There is a quality about a Spirit-filled, radiant Christian that draws and attracts others and causes them to enjoy favor with all the people. The truth is that the gospel is not nearly as offensive as some of its proponents!

  O. S. Hawkins

  Christian, Real, People

  O. S. Hawkins (2005). “Guidestones: ancient landmarks of authenticity for the 21st century church”

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• Throughout history there have been black people who have played mammies, all sorts of offensive images, who didn't mind doing it.

  Marc Lamont Hill

  People, Black, Mind

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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