Affront Quotes

59 quotes by 56 authors

It is very easy to say that your opponents have been guilty of a breach of faith, but it is a great mistake to splash… — Winston Churchill
When I'm asked about the relevance to Black people of what I do, I take that as an affront. It presupposes that Black people have… — Mae Jemison
An Affront to the Rule of Law and to the Constitution Itself — John Boehner
The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate. — Hendrik Hertzberg
Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear. — Miguel de Cervantes
Modern slavery - be it bonded labor, involuntary servitude, or sexual slavery - is a crime and cannot be tolerated in any culture, community, or… — Hillary Clinton
Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others. — Jose Marti
The laws against public nudity make no sense. The idea that Jerry Falwell can go topless while Cindy Crawford cannot is an absolute affront to… — Peter McWilliams
The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have… — Randa Abdel-Fattah
I respect women like Gloria Steinem who paved the way. But when you say 'feminist' now, there is a message that if you are sexy… — Megyn Kelly
Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good, or that he cannot swim or shoots badly with a rifle, but… — Stephen Leacock
Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people. — Todd Akin
An American soldier, Saddam in his sights, has a picture of a naked, buxom woman on his dashboard, an obvious affront to Muslim sensibilities. — Margo Kingston
Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he… — Alexander Haig
And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain. — Jean Ingelow
Every aspect of Obamacare is an affront to the very founding of this country. — Rush Limbaugh
It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance. — Thomas Paine
The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American,and a threat to every private sector job in this country. — Rick Perry
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence. — George Bernard Shaw
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the… — Susan Sontag

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