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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

All labels are offensive in some way. — J Mascis

We have gotten so use to humor being something nasty and offensive that we started to believe that was the only way to get a laugh. — John Patrick Hickey

His [Donald Trump ]comments are shocking, offensive and disturbing but I don't believe it merits a ban at this point in time. — Keir Starmer

On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia ... — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The best defense against terrorism is a strong offensive against terrorists. That work continues. — George W. Bush

We will not build our offensive game plan around our punter. We will not major in punting. — Rex Ryan

Find the video that has been so offensive to Muslims to be disgusting and reprehensible. — Jay Carney

It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave. — Homer

An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness. — Alexander Von Humboldt

I like an interesting movie even if it's controversial or offensive, depending on your taste. — Adam Brody

Perhaps I am an insensitive rich woman. That doesn't change the fact that you can be downright mean and offensive, Kaladin Stormblessed. — Brandon Sanderson

I don't talk much to offensive linemen in general. — Jack Youngblood

The disconnect between [offensive coordinator] Todd Haley and [quarterback] Ben Roethlisberger is so blatant you can just see it. — Marshall Faulk

I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization. — Tony Hawk

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint? — Jessamyn West

Lack of education," old Mrs. Sharpe said thoughtfully, "is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive. They had no resources at all. — Josephine Tey

At what point did we begin to think excellence is offensive to God? — Jeff Henderson

The most offensive thing that ever occurred in 'The New Yorker' would be, like, the mildest thing at a Chris Rock concert. — Robert Mankoff

His manner had the offensive jauntiness of the man who has had a cold bath when he might just as easily have had a hot one. — P.G. Wodehouse

Individual believers are not to usurp the role of civil government and judge people who are offensive. — Max Anders

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

Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language. — Timothy West

Most offensive is what he imagines a person thinks about himself. — Leonard Michaels

Criminals are the most decent and least offensive people among us. — Ernesto Sabato

I'm not that involved in personal grooming. But I try not to be offensive to people. — Viggo Mortensen

It is not that people are evil or greedy. The conditions that socially support the system force us to behave in socially offensive ways. — Jacque Fresco

You can't get mad at a bear for being racist. You can't get mad at a bear for being offensive. It's not real. — Mila Kunis

If a ray of light falls into a pigsty, it is the ray that shows us the muck and it is the ray that is offensive. — Ayn Rand

My lyrics aren't offensive. Some people find everything offensive. — Tyler, The Creator

The rubber hits the road when we try to show grace to a person most unlike us, even someone morally offensive. — Philip Yancey

There's an art to stupid comedy. There's an art to offensive comedy, and I think the key is it's just gotta make you laugh. — Hayden Schlossberg

But camels, though odious to view and endowed with the offensive spirit, did not enjoy the blessing of pachydermaty. — F. E. Adcock

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form. — Anatole Broyard

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

You should always be defensive, but never be offensive. This will help you to preserve your reputation as a human being. — Saaif Alam

They're a very offensive team and even without Thierry Henry they can still do damage to you all over the pitch.
(on Arsenal) — Frank Lampard

I don't mean to be rude'- always a precursor to rudeness of the most offensive sort — Julian Fellowes

Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A warrior lives on his wars, whether offensive or defensive. And he suffers a collapse if he finds that his warring capacity is unwanted. — Mahatma Gandhi

I am not now, nor will I ever be, a candidate for offensive coordinator of Iowa. — Marco Rubio

It's offensive to me to be called a cost cutter, — Jamie Dimon

Patriotism has become a narrow offensive sentiment which as long as it lives will maintain war and exhaust the world — Henri Barbusse

In planning any type of offense, when a player leaves a spot always replace him with another offensive player. — Hubie Brown

Bernard gave his orders in the sharp, rather arrogant and even offensive tone of one who does not feel himself too secure in his superiority. — Aldous Huxley

My style is to stay on the offensive: to take risks, to recover very fast when you make a mistake, but to keep moving forward. — Newt Gingrich

Offensive operations, often times, is the surest, if not the only means of defence. — George Washington

I don't find the whole 'cougar' word that offensive. — Courteney Cox

Grace is inexplicable, inappropriate, out of bounds, offensive, excessive, & given to the wrong people. — Michael Spencer

When you're in another country, remember to do as the locals do, since it is your ways that may seem strange of offensive to them. — Tracey Wilen

Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves. — Samuel Johnson

I understand being less sexy than Osama bin Laden, but not less sexy than Carrot Top. That, I find offensive. — Gilbert Gottfried

I've made this statement many times: If I would have to do it over again, I would have made known the forthcoming Tet Offensive. — William Westmoreland

I was an offensive defenseman. I was up the ice as much as I was back. — Bobby Orr

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

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe. — Alfred North Whitehead

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive — Stefan Molyneux

Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness. — Leon Trotsky

Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time
life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death. — Holly Lisle

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

It's okay to write something offensive now and then. It lets you know if anyone actually reads your posts. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Slow down. Make a point of revisiting passages that seem especially rich, or especially confusing, or for that matter especially offensive. — Alan Jacobs

No matter how offensive she's been to me, she continues to act as if she has some sort of God-given right to keep coming back for more favors. — Diane Capri

Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells. — Juvenal

Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.
(about Guernica). — Pablo Picasso

The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception. — Manfred Von Richthofen

Still, it doesn't do to murder people, however offensive they may be. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it. — Judy Blume

Our offensive philosophy is to simply find a way to get the ball into the hands of our team's best player. — Kelvin Sampson

The general with the smallest numbers should remain always on the offensive. — Joe Abercrombie

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up. — Red Auerbach

People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character. — John Oliver

It was their own offensive, not ours, that consummated their ruin. They were worn down not by Joffre, Nivelle and Haig, but by Ludendorff. See — Winston S. Churchill

Is it that offensive to be the fairer sex so that you are inflicted by all means? — Mallika Tripathi

I am, I hope, never offensive by accident. — Christopher Hitchens

I hate white people writing for black people; it's so offensive. So we go out and look specifically for African-American voices. — Lee Daniels

Labels applied to people of any race are inherently offensive. — Edward Brooke

The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms. — Randall Park

My men don't dig foxholes. I don't want them to. Foxholes only slow up an offensive. Keep moving. And don't give the enemy time to dig one either. — George S. Patton

Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the vulgar. — Thorstein Veblen

Of all noxious animals, the most noxious is a tourist. And of all tourists the most vulgar, ill-bred, offensive and loathsome is the British tourist. — Francis Kilvert

When you're given the gift of truth, you spend a lot of time trying to tone it down because it is already offensive enough. — Shannon L. Alder

If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms. — Gerald Brenan

I still subscribe to the minority view that all horses are offensive weapons and not to be trusted a yard. — M.M. Kaye

As long as my opponent has not yet castled, on each move I seek a pretext for an offensive. Even when I realize that the king is not in danger. — Mikhail Tal

I wouldn't be the best offensive player if I didn't have a great setter. She serves me up nectar. — Misty May-Treanor

People always talk about going on offensive runs. But you can go on defensive runs too — Tom Thibodeau

Aggressiveness carries with it an incalculable moral edge in any combat, offensive or defensive. — Jeff Cooper

There was nothing more offensive than a man blessed with looks where he should have been given courtesy. — C.D. Reiss

This is why there are few prophets. We end up dead a lot. The truth is offensive to men who love darkness. — Brent Weeks

Offensive acts come back upon the evil doer, like dust that is thrown against the wind. — Gautama Buddha

I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person. — Carlos Ghosn

All our sins are offensive to God and require forgiveness. But over and over the Bible teaches that some sins are worse than others. — Kevin DeYoung

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. — Bertrand Russell

Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him. — Theophrastus

Hate nobody; love everybody including people who offend you. — Israelmore Ayivor

Nevertheless, I tend to get offensive easily. — Robert Loggia

Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second. — Rachel Bloom