David Irving is under arrest in Austria for Holocaust denial. Perhaps there is a case for making climate change denial an offence… — Margo Kingston Copy Share Image
When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive; for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
“The worst ever offence you can commit against your time is to think that “time spent making plans is time being wasted!”… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
This is the slowest, yet the daintiest sense; For ev'n the ears of such as have no skill, Perceive a discord, and… — Sir John Davies Copy Share Image
The national laws of the five regions of India prescribe no cangue, beatings or prison. Those who are guilty are fined in… — Hyecho Copy Share Image
One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
In The Lost Message of Jesus I claim that penal substitution is tantamount to 'child abuse - a vengeful Father punishing his… — Steve Chalke Copy Share Image
Offence is no longer defence - it's a full-time profession. Everyone is so offended all the time. The new police force that… — Karan Johar Copy Share Image
(Carmine Crocco) A farm-labourer and cowherd, had joined the Bourbon army, killed a comrade in a brawl, deserted and lived as an… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
At the mention of the name and offence of this degraded being a great sound went up from the entire multitude -… — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
The French Revolution, Fichte's Theory of Knowledge, and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister are the three greatest tendencies of the age. Whoever takes offence… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It is sufficiently evident from many circumstances, that the doctrine of the divinity of Christ did not establish itself without much opposition,… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
“I think there's a difference between (a) offending people for its own sake, which I don't necessarily want to do, because some… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Your accumulated offences do not surpass the multitude of God's mercies: your wounds do not surpass the great Physician's skill. — Cyril of Jerusalem Copy Share Image
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain. — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
If you know yourself, then you'll not be harmed by what is said about you. — Sufyan al-Thawri Copy Share Image
True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
The only 'natural enemies' are those who take one's very nature as an offence. — Simon May Copy Share Image
What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things,... — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Vatican City is a bit overrated in my opinion - no offence to the Vatican. — Ed Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Politeness can at once be the indifferent affliction of the ‘civilized’ as well as a subterfuge for the designed offence.” — Vinod Pande Copy Share Image
I take offence if I'm called arrogant, because I've been brought up in a family that does not endorse arrogance. — Shruti Haasan Copy Share Image
All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress — Kate Burridge Copy Share Image
Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous.Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Forgetting offences is a sign of sincere repentance. If you keep the memory of them, you may believe you have repented but… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
Baby you should bring your best friend, then you should persuade her to let me get some sex in. Don't get offended,… — Drake Copy Share Image
Everything written, if it has anything in it, will offend someone, and if the mere taking of offence was to amount to… — Rex Murphy Copy Share Image
A very small offence may be a just cause for great resentment: it is often much less the particular instance which is… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
For granting we have sinned, and that the offence Of man is made against Omnipotence, Some price that bears proportion must be… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Take advantage of the gracious condescension of the elegant calf's kidney, multiply its metamorphoses: you can without giving it any offence, call… — Emmanuel des Essarts Copy Share Image
“A person's true character lies somewhere until after you might have pressed the wrong button without knowing, then you'll realize that there… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The fact that some governments, churches and numerous corrupted individuals have tried to reduce such behavior from criminal offence to personal privilege… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
