Insult Quotes

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To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or… — Claude Adrien Helvetius
A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof… — Samuel Johnson
Being bored is an insult to oneself. — Jules Renard
She is running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsmen, how she values the Second Amendment. She's talking like she's Annie Oakley. — Barack Obama
Wear a gun to someone else's house, you're saying, 'I'll defend this home as if it were my own.' When your guests see you carry… — L. Neil Smith
For awareness you need not go to the Himalayas; you need not go anywhere. Your life gives you enough opportunities to be aware. Somebody insults… — Rajneesh
In the dog two conditions were found to produce pathological disturbances by functional interference, namely, an unusually acute clashing of the excitatory and inhibitory processes,… — Ivan Pavlov
Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy. — Danielle Steel
And I can see that everything about this God has been purposely designed to poison our experience of life on earth, not to enhance it,… — Pat Condell
If I love myself I will express that love in my interactions with you, and then I am being impeccable with the word, because that… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Are we not all shipwrecked,...condemned to death?... However impatient our neighbours make us, however much indignation our race arouses, we are all bound together, and… — Henri Frederic Amiel
For example, a few years ago, a great French philosopher, Roger Garaudy, wrote a scientific book. He did not offend, curse, or insult anyone. He… — Hassan Nasrallah
We looked at each other, and I could see in those big reddened eyes that he was not going to scream. He was full of… — Ernest Gaines
Re examine all you have been told in school and in church Or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul and your very… — Walt Whitman
We were told that they wished merely to pass through our country. . . to seek for gold in the far west . . .… — Red Cloud
I will not insult you by trying to tell you that one day you will forget. I know as well as you that you will… — Terence Rattigan
In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd for protection, you… — Randolph Bourne
The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to guesswork, but made… — Mark Twain
Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands that the brother… — Mark Twain
Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot… — Leonardo da Vinci

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