Body-complex Quote by Dada Bhagwan

A small unkindness is a great offence.

— Hannah More

A very small offence may be a just cause for great resentment: it is often much less the particular instance which is obnoxious to…

— Sir Fulke Greville

“Atikraman’ [aggression through thoughts, speech or action] happens naturally. To do 'pratikraman' is our own spiritual effort (purusharth).”

— Dada Bhagwan

The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners, we now…

— Lynne Truss

For some people, speaking and giving offence are one and the same thing. They are spiteful and bitter; their style is infused with gall…

— Jean de la Bruyere

I'm interested in offence and why people take offence in certain ways about certain things.

— Nish Kumar

“Before you condemn someone else for a wrongful act, check your behavior and see if you too, have committed an act similar or even…

— Ellen J. Barrier

“You know when someone says, 'no offense,' I pointed out to him, 'the thing they say directly after that is always offensive”

— ripley patton

It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.

— Hugh Blair

When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility.

— Plato

If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always going to get a reaction.

— Irvine Welsh

All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal…

— Samuel Johnson