Offensive Quotes

• Change gear, change gear, check mirror, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder. That's a lot of effort in a day.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Jobs, Mirrors, Effort

  "Clarkson joke sparks complaints", news.bbc.co.uk. November 4, 2008.

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• Would I employ you if you were obese? No I would not. You would give the wrong impression to the clients of my business. I need people to look energetic, professional and efficient. If you are obese you look lazy.

  Katie Hopkins

  People, Giving, Lazy

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them.

  Mel Gibson

  Feminist, Don't Like Me, I Don't Like You

  "Mel Gibson’s Sexist Interview Answers From 1995 Are Relevant Again". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 1995.

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• Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

  Anita Brookner

  Women, Thinking, Good Woman

  Hotel du Lac (1984) ch. 7

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• A name, for me, is a short way of working out what class that child comes from. Do I want my child to play with them?

  Katie Hopkins

  Children, Class, Play

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Hands, Idols, Mind

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.11, Fig

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• The difference between most mothers and me is that I didn't sit around drinking coffee at baby group for 12 months after the birth of my baby. No, in three weeks I was back in my suit, back at my desk earning profit for my business and I don't see why other women shouldn't do the same.

  Katie Hopkins

  Mother, Baby, Drinking

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I really think if you have a tattoo you have to wonder about what kind of future you have ahead of you. As an employer, I wouldn't employ someone with tattoos as I would wonder what customers would think about them. For me, tattoos are just a way for people to find attention who haven't found another way in their life to achieve it by conventional means.

  Katie Hopkins

  Tattoo, Mean, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Mammary militia breast feeding en masse in Costa. Puts one off their latte.

  Katie Hopkins

  Feeding, Lattes, Breasts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Arrogance, Merit, Philosphy

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.139, Cambridge University Press

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• I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.

  Marvin Harris

  Writing, Controversial, Valuable

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• Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

  Oscar Wilde

  Integrity, Ethics, Moral

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.999, Wordsworth Editions

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• We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Patience, Vanity, People

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• Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

  Seneca the Younger

  Success, Philosophical, Crime

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

  Robert Burns

  Struggle, Mind, Favourite

  Robert Burns, James Currie (1844). “The Works of Robert Burns: With Dr. Currie's Memoir of the Poet, and an Essay on His Genius and Character”, p.276

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• I can't get upset about 'offensive to women' or 'offensive to blacks' or 'offensive to Native Americans' or 'offensive to Jews' ... Offend! I can't get worked up about it. Offend!

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Native American, Upset, Jew

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• If you are offended by reading views that disagree with yours, then yes, you will be offended. However, it is not gratuitously offensive, it simply puts an argument, and if your views are strong enough, as I believe they are, you will be able to defend your views. You will not say, "Oh, it's offensive, it's offensive." You will say "No, you are wrong here and you are wrong here," and that's what you should do.

  Richard Dawkins

  Strong, Fear, Believe

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• The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and never get over their astonishment at the ingratitude and selfishness of their contemporaries.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, People, Selfishness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.14

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• Society bends over backward to be accommodating to religious sensibilities but not to other kinds of sensibilities. If I say something offensive to religious people, I'll be universally censured, including by many atheists.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Atheist, People

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• You know, it really doesn`t matter what the media write as long as you`ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.

  Donald Trump

  Beautiful, Stupid, Writing

  "Would God Be So Good?" by Barry Friedman, www.esquire.com. July 29, 2013.

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• As a society, we pick words that are offensive based on what we're most afraid of. We associate sounds with some dangerous idea, and right now the most dangerous thing to us are the differences between us.

  Richard Dooling

  Dangerous Ideas, Differences, Sound

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• Politics, under a democracy, reduces itself to a mere struggle for office by flatterers of the proletariat; even when a superior man prevails at that disgusting game he must prevail at the cost of his self-respect. Not many superior men make the attempt. The average great captain of the rabble, when he is not simply a weeper over irremediable wrongs, is a hypocrite so far gone that he is unconscious of his own hypocrisy.. a slimy fellow, offensive to the nose.

  H. L. Mencken

  Struggle, Hypocrite, Men

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• The National Organization of Women is the national organization of witches.

  Jerry Falwell

  Organization, Sick, Witch

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• One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Business, Keys

  "Less Than Artful Choices: Narcissistic Personality Disorder According to Donald Trump" by Maria Konnikova, bigthink.com. 2017.

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• When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending the best.

  Donald Trump

  Illegal Things, People, Mexican

  "Divided Mexico unites against Trump: 'He has no respect for human beings'" by Jo Tuckman, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2015.

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