Quotes about Offence

Writer, Writer

Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.

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Niccolo Machiavelli

Politician, Historian, Philosopher, Writer

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Inspiration - Man - Offence - Philosophy

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Leo Tolstoy

Writer

It is this law of love and its recognition as a rule of conduct in all our relations with friends, enemies and offenders which must inevitably bring about the complete transformation of the existing order of things, not only among Christian nations, but among all the peoples of the globe

Christianity - Offence

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Moliere

Musician, Playwright, Playwright

In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.

Clothes - Extreme - Giving - Man - Offence - Speaking - Taste - Wellness

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Pope John Paul II

Clergyman, Saint, Priest

When a parliamentary or social majority decrees that it is legal, at least under certain conditions, to kill unborn human life, is it not really making a tyrannical decision with regard to the weakest and most defenseless of human beings?....While public authority can sometimes choose not to put a stop to something which were it prohibited would cause more serious harm, it can never presume to legitimize as a right of individuals even if they are the majority of the members of society an offense against other persons caused by the disregard of so fundamental a right as the right to life.

Authority - Certainty - Conditioning - Decision - Harm - Human - Individual - Majority - Offence - Parliament - Serious - Sometimes

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Napoleon Bonaparte

Politician, Leader, Military Commander

The transition from the defensive to the offensive is one of the most delicate operations in war.

Offence - Operation - Transitioning - War

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William Shakespeare

Poet, Playwright, Actor

If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear.

Offence

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Edward Abbey

Artist, Author, Author

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

Offence - Records - Speaking - Writing

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Tacitus

Actress, Historian, Historian

More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.

Fault - Giving - Offence - Trial

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Neale Donald Walsch

Writer, Author, Author

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.

Boundaries - Inspiration - Law - Limits - Obligations - Offence - Religion

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Jack Kerouac

Novelist, Poet

But on top of all that, the feelings about Princess, I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death and I had really no lie come to a point where I regarded lust as offensive and even cruel. "Pretty girls make graves," was my saying, whenever I'd had to turn my head around involuntarily to stare at the incomparable pretties of Indian Mexico.

India - Lie - Offence

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Ambrose Bierce

Writer, Journalist, Soldier

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

Apology - Offence

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Aristotle

Philosopher

The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the organization of offices in a state, and determines what is to be the governing body, and what is the end of each community. But laws are not to be confounded with the principles of the constitution; they are the rules according to which the magistrates should administer the state, and proceed against offenders.

Constitution - End - Government - Law - Offence - Organization - Principle - Relatives - State

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive .

Man - Offence - Speaking

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Abraham Lincoln

Former President of the United States

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Motivation - Nobility - Offence - President - Value

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John F. Kennedy

Former President of the United States

This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet Military buildup on the island of Cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. The purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear strike capability against the Western Hemisphere.

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Alice Walker

Novelist, Poet, Activist

Once you feel loved by the universe, you're already accepted, and you're not really concerned about offending people.

Accept - Feelings - Love - Offence

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Alexander Pope

Poet

Love the offender, yet detest the offense.

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C. S. Lewis

Novelist, Scholar, Broadcaster

And that's why, gentleman, if your little girl doesn't come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely in a way of business, as you might say, and no offense, I hope.

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Dalai Lama, XIV

Leader of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism, Exiled Leader of Tibet

So, the tendency of our childish nature is to take small things too seriously and get easily offended, whereas when we are confronted with situations which have long-term consequences, we tend to take things less seriously

Buddhism - Consequence - Offence - Tendency

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