Offensive Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• No obligation. Nor any restriction or limitation, nor any guidelines or rules. Nor are you bound by any circumstances or situations, nor constrained by any Code or law. Nor are you punishable for any offense, nor capable of any-for there is no such thing as being "offensive" in the eyes of God.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Eye

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.131, Penguin

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• People run away from the name subsidy. It is a subsidy. I am not afraid to call it so. It is paid for the purpose of giving a merchant marine to the whole country so that the trade of the whole country will be benefitted thereby, and the men running the ships will of course make a reasonable profit.... Unless we have a merchant marine, our navy if called upon for offensive or defensive work is going to be most defective.

  William Howard Taft

  Running, Country, Marine

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• Yeah, I had it all mapped out actually. Seriously. I wrote it down. I said, 'When I'm the head coach of the Eagles, I'm going to make sure I get that guy on my team.' And then guy next to me was like, 'You're only the offensive coordinator at New Hampshire.' I said, 'Don't worry about it. Minor details. But it's going to work.'

  Chip Kelly

  Funny, Team, Eagles

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• The most offensive egotist is he that fears to say "I" and "me." "It will probably rain" - that is dogmatic. "I think it will rain" - that is natural and modest. Montaigne is the most delightful of essayists because so great is his humility that he does not think it important that we see not Montaigne. He so forgets himself that he employs no artifice to make us forget him.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Rain, Humility, Thinking

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2696, Delphi Classics

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• Anybody who objects to cloning on principle has to answer to all the identical twins in the world who might be insulted by the thought that there is something offensive about their very existence. Clones are simply identical twins.

  Richard Dawkins

  Principles, Cloning, Answers

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• In one decade, women had gotten more protection against offensive jokes in the workplace than men had gotten in centuries against being killed in the workplace.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Workplace, Protection

  Warren Farrell (1993). “The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex”

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• It is not just that it is profoundly offensive to the leaders and people of a democratic Germany to paint Hitler on the wall (or on the remnants of the Wall). It is also consummately counterproductive. Such sauce does not make the meat of substantive criticism more interesting. It means that the whole dish is pushed away. It does not mean that Britain's voice is listened to more attentively in the councils of Europe. It means that it is listened to even less.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Wall, Mean, Europe

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• I understand that in the UK there have already been 10,000 complaints from viewers about these remarks, which people see, rightly, as offensive. I want Britain to be seen as a country of fairness and tolerance. Anything detracting from this I condemn.

  Gordon Brown

  Country, People, Tolerance

  "Reality TV Racism Row Grips Viewers". uk.reuters.com. January 19, 2007.

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• In representing criminal defendants - especially guilty ones - it is often necessary to take the offensive against the government: to put the government on trial for its misconduct. In law, as in sports, the best defense is often a good offense. The courtroom oath - to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth - is applicable only to witnesses... because the American justice system is built on a foundation of not telling the whole entire truth.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Sports, Government, Law

  "The Best Defense: The Courtroom Confrontations of America's Most Outspoken Lawyer of Last Resort - the Lawyer Who Won the Claus von Bulow Appeal". Book by Alan Dershowitz, 1982.

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• Labels applied to people of any race are inherently offensive.

  Edward Brooke

  Race, People, Labels

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• The internet is the most complex system that humans have ever invented. And with every internet enabled operation that we've seen so far, all of these offensive operations, we see knock on effects. We see unintended consequences.

  Edward Snowden

  Internet, Unintended Consequences, Operations

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's becoming less and less the National Security Agency and more and more the national surveillance agency. It's gaining more offensive powers with each passing year.

  Edward Snowden

  Agency, Years, Surveillance

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If [President Obama] does not go on the offensive against ISIS...they are coming here. This is just not about Baghdad, this is just not about Syria, this is about our homeland. And if we get attacked because he has no strategy to protect us, then he will have committed a blunder for the ages.

  Lindsey Graham

  Leadership, Reality, Isis

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• Our culture's tolerance wears thin when religion intrudes on the public discourse... Our schools, courtrooms, and libraries set the tone for the entire society. The message they currently communicate is harsh and unambiguous: religion is offensive and should be kept out of public view.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, School

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• It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stones, Made, Paving

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1056, Wordsworth Editions

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